On May 3, 2009, at 9:15 AM, Thomas Pfaff wrote:
> On Sun, 3 May 2009 08:45:55 -0700

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> "J.C. Roberts"  wrote:

>> Thirdly, it should be removed. The new installer destined for 4.6

>> already does the right thing, so the i386\amd64 specific etc/

>> boot.conf

>> hack is redundant and leads to confusion.

>

> Hmm, how should I specify that I want to use com0 as console then?

Agreed, boot.conf is VERY useful.
Another important use is to reboot into another temporary kernel.  I

use this to boot into a YAIFO-like installer, so I can easily re-

install a running machine from the network without

having to much with BIOS setting for pxeboot, etc.  And if this

process fails for some reason (before you reformat your disks :-) ),

it is good to have the regular kernels sitting around for recovery

purposes.
Don