> Unnecessary? Maybe. But what about us folx who cannot use lilo?
>
> I've been unable to use lilo for at least 2 years. I boot with a floppy.
>
> Sure, we could use rdev.... but shouldn't the kernel compile take care of
> itself?
That was my original intention. There is absolutely NO harm in having the
kernel make call rdev to set itself readonly. I just put it in the wrong
place. Hehehehe for such a simple thing it sure started a mini war. You
should have seen the hate-mail I got from all the smug lilo users who
made sure I knew I was an idiot for not putting read-only in the lilo
conf file. Perhaps they think the whole plannet's system is just like thiers?
Kean Johnston
hug@netcom.com