Re: The policy on initramfs decompression failure

[Bodo Eggert]

H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thought about this whole thing some more, and it seems to me as follows:
> what we really want, and need, is a "panic-level=X" option, where X will
> naturally vary for differnet users.  I suspect there are many users
> today who would prefer a panic (and reboot) on a KERN_CRIT message, even
> at runtime.  For finer control, we need a message subsystem tag, but
> that is something that would be highly desirable anyway.

This will be fun if there are read errors on the CDROM.

> As such, the initramfs decompression failure should be a KERN_CRIT or
> KERN_ALERT message, and not a panic per se.

Only if you can argue that not using the initrd WILL NEVER be bad.

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