On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 10:59:32PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Oleg Verych wrote: > > > >It will burn CPU, until power cycle will be done (my AMD64 laptop and > >Intel's amd64 destop PC require that). In case of reboot timeout (or > >just reboot with jump to BIOS), i will just choose another image to boot > >or will press F8 to have another boot device. > > > > That's a fairly stupid argument, since it assumes operator intervention, > at which point you have access to the machine anyway.
I would never call *power cycle* stupid, just because from physics point of veiw. Example. I have my flower.upol.cz many kilometers far away from me. I used to boot it from that flash (new hardware, sata problems, etc). When something goes wrong with rc kernel or power source, bum. And i had to move my ass there, just to press reset. Because. While i have "power on, on AC failures" in BIOS, *sometimes* flash will not boot (i don't know why, maybe it's GRUB+flash-read, or BIOS usb hdd implementation specific). DTR laptop ~33% doesn't boot that flash. And laptop has no reset button. Operator is present, so your consern is right here. > A stronger argument is, again, that some bootloaders can do unattended > fallback. ____ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
