Re: Rescue mode

[Scott Wood <scott@geekland.cx>]

Alexander Maryanchick wrote:
> > On what do you intend the kernel to base it's estimation of the
> > successfulness of the boot? Certainly it will be hard to convince
> > Linus to let the scheduler check for a process of commandline "xdm*"
> > exceeding 5 seconds of runtime, and set a flag at that point.
> :-).
> Kernel knows if it must run xdm at startup, right.
> Then why it can not check what really happened?

No, it doesn't know that.  The initialization scripts do.
The only program the kernel ever launches directly is /sbin/init (or a
short list of alternatives if that can't be found).

> Unfortunately, windows is a large store for good ideas.
> (The interface from Apple, NT kernel from NeXT, object architecture from

Huh?  NT kernel from NeXT???
Surely you mean VMS.  NeXT's kernel was BSD running on Mach.  The only
thing NeXT's kernel has in common with NT is that they're both
microkernels... and that's hardly unique to either of them.

> "Windows 98 supports PnP, but unlike in Windows 95 it works..." :-)))

heh... as long as you don't plug in a scanner during a large
demonstration. :-)

-Scott
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