Off by eight.

Jordan Archer jarcher at pobox.com
Wed Nov 19 14:44:00 CET 2003


Conceptually I break it down into two separate pieces.  One being the boot 
portion and one being the payload.  The different kernels make sense as an 
option on which payload is run.  The boot portion should be pretty 
stable.  And the fallback boot would deal with a failed boot update.

Jordan

At 12:09 PM 11/19/2003, you wrote:
>On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 jarcher at pobox.com wrote:
>
> > I think of the fallback as the recovery if the normal fails.  This is kind
> > of an ideological point, but shouldn't the fallback be a minimal recovery
> > version?
>
>why? the fallback could be one of two linux kernels. It all depends on how
>mmuch space is available.
>
>ron




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