Re: mach-defpager/serverboot changes (tmpfs too)

[Jeroen Dekkers]

On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 06:53:09PM -0800, Jeff Bailey wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 08:38:37PM -0500, Roland McGrath wrote:
> 
> > I don't expect that anyone is still using serverboot since we've had
> > boot script support in the kernel for a while now.
> 
> I have been actively recommending serverboot over the bootscript
> method.  In almost all cases where people show up on irc with boot
> problems, I tell them to switch to serverboot and it solves the
> problems.

And that's because they don't make typos with serverboot and not
because the bootscript method is broken.
 
> It might be worth noting that I have never gotten the funky bootscript
> method to work.  I also haven't bothered memorizing the commands,
> since serverboot is quite easy and works in every case.

When you said that on IRC you told me also that you used a mach which
was quite old. I said that you should try again with a newer mach,
have you done that? If not, try that and tell us if it works. :)

Jeroen Dekkers
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