Re: i386 (+alpha?) boot penguin #4 ...

Gerd Knorr (kraxel@cs.tu-berlin.de)
Fri, 18 Jul 1997 00:26:10 +0200 (MET DST)


On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Pavel Machek wrote:

> > Well this has a few drawbacks:
> > * shift-pageup does not work with scroll regions
>
> So, instead of loosing penguin, you loose messages. Sorry, but
> messages are much more precious to my heart than penguin is. You've
> just made your patch unusable.

That's why it is a runtime option. If the boot process stops before you
can recall the messages with dmesg, just try again without the penguin...

Gerd