tytso:
But that assumes that you are using lilo --- there are many other ways
of booting a kernel, from loadlin to booting straight from a floppy.
I'd rather not assume the presence of LILO.
Oh, please ...
We have good autodetection - it works 99.9% of the time.
We have boot loaders that know about kernel boot line arguments -
really required in many cases.
You can't be serious suggesting to `improve' the autodetection
to 99.97% and pollute the kernel code by just using another
plausible heuristic?
Andries