Re: CML2-2.1.3 is available

Rob Landley
2002-01-16T03:42:01Z

On Tuesday 15 January 2002 03:41 pm, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> > Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>:
> > > > Release 2.1.3: Tue Jan 15 14:41:45 EST 2002
> > > > * The `vitality' flag is gone from the language. Instead, the
> > > > autoprober detects the type of your root filesystem and forces
> > > > its symbol to Y.
> > >
> > > What happens if you compile a kernel for another machine? Or
> > > cross-compile?
> >
> > In that case you can't use the autoconfigurator anyway.
>
> Sorry. I passed over "autoprober" too fast. As long as auto* stuff can
> be turned off that fine.

It's optional.

I -STILL- can't figure out why the autoprober doesn't just look in
/proc/mounts to figure out who and what our root device and filesystem are.

I need to set up a system that boots to an initrd and puts the root device
lives on a samba server just to confuse eric's autoprober. Hmmm... I wonder
if that would work? :)

Rob