> On Feb 19, 11:03am, Snow Cat wrote:
> >
> > Clayton O'Neill once wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, 19 Feb 1996, Robert of the smileys wrote:
> > > > > Would be nice if at boot time 1.3 printed a message warning about
> > > > > its experimental status.
> > > >
> > > > Good idea, just about everyone reads those messages as they scroll past
> > > > to make sure everything is as it should be.
> > >
> > > This may be a bit draconian, but it should be trivial to make the kernel
> > > wait for an affirmative input indicating the the person has read the
> > > message that basically says "This is beta code and might (probably) won't
> > > work the way you want. You've been warned". I'd make it possible to
> > > override this behavior with a kernel parameter for those of us willing to
> > > use beta kernels in production.
> > >
> >
> > I don't think it's a good stratagy as it will force some people to avoid
> > this delay screen rather than bugs. Then, if code is not tested by an
> > average user, how can we have "stable" versions? How many people around are
> > using XFree86 3.1.2<beta>?
> >
> > Besides locking up at boot is not good for unattended systems that are
> > supposed to reboot after power off or crash.
>
> Of course it should be able to be bypassed. Say a kernel command line
> option
>
> betakey=458739
>
> which is a random number that changes with each release. Then people will
> get the screen the first time they install a new beta kernel, and be able
> to disable it in lilo.conf.
What about just doing it at compile time? "This is a bata kernel, etc...
press any key ('cept ctrl-c) to continue...." when you make config?
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