[debian-yeeloong-project] Lemote Mini-PC 6004 D-I Problem

John Long codeblue at inbox.lv
Mon Aug 6 11:05:55 UTC 2012


On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 11:43:42AM +0100, Michael Stevens wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 09:34:58AM +0000, John Long wrote:
> > > I've not tried installing in a while, but I was unable to get the
> > > pmon->grub->linux based boot to work, I had to manually setup to boot
> > > straight from pmon.
> > 
> > This is what I suggested also. But more to the point, what do you gain from
> > Grub when PMON already supports a menu like Grub? Why go through more than one
> > bootloader when one is enough?
> 
> The only advantage I know of is that it avoids the initrd bug that gives
> you really slow boots.

That's a good point, thanks for reminding me. I had forgotten about the
initrd issue. If you're in a situation where you have to reboot a lot, that
can be painful.

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