Hi!
> > > Very early is not so early, and loading initrd itself may actually fail.
> > > The kernel may indeed hang, but there are more chances to get some
> > > messages before the hang. Don't _you_ have a VGA screen for getting
> > > earliest failure messages from the kernel?
> >
> > No. I'm using framebuffer, that's initialized quite late in boot
> > process. Plus many users just use bootsplash. I do use vga mode for
> > heavy debugging, but that's quite unusual.
>
> But that's what some people do for their work, so they need it.
How many such users are out there?
> > So... you actually have speech-enabled grub/lilo/something?
>
> That's in project too (and there's no reason it shouldn't be done).
I'd say kernel debugging is hard without accessible bootloader, so I'd
hope number of such users is very low.
Pavel
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