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@@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ packages.  It would only check USB sticks, floppies and other
 solve the problem I ran into with Debian edu.  I also changed it to
 look in /firmware/, to make sure the installer also find firmware
 provided in the initrd when booting the installer via PXE, to allow us
-to provide the same feature in the PXE installer provided in Debian
+to provide the same feature in the PXE setup included in Debian
 Edu.</p>
 
 <p>To make sure firmware deb packages with a license questions are not
@@ -412,5 +412,53 @@ contact us on debian-boot@lists.debian.org.</p>
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+	<item>
+		<title>Parallellized boot seem to hold up well in Debian/testing</title>
+		<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Parallellized_boot_seem_to_hold_up_well_in_Debian_testing.html</link>        
+		<guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Parallellized_boot_seem_to_hold_up_well_in_Debian_testing.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 23:55:00 +0200</pubDate>
+		<description>
+&lt;p&gt;A few days ago, parallel booting was enabled in Debian/testing.
+The feature seem to hold up pretty well, but three fairly serious
+issues are known and should be solved:
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;The wicd package seen to
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/508289&quot;&gt;break NFS mounting&lt;/a&gt; and
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/581586&quot;&gt;network setup&lt;/a&gt; when
+parallel booting is enabled.  No idea why, but the wicd maintainer
+seem to be on the case.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;The nvidia X driver seem to
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/583312&quot;&gt;have a race condition&lt;/a&gt;
+triggered more easily when parallel booting is in effect.  The
+maintainer is on the case.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;The sysv-rc package fail to properly enable dependency based boot
+sequencing (the shutdown is broken) when old file-rc users
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/575080&quot;&gt;try to switch back&lt;/a&gt; to
+sysv-rc.  One way to solve it would be for file-rc to create
+/etc/init.d/.legacy-bootordering, and another is to try to make
+sysv-rc more robust.  Will investigate some more and probably upload a
+workaround in sysv-rc to help those trying to move from file-rc to
+sysv-rc get a working shutdown.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;All in all not many surprising issues, and all of them seem
+solvable before Squeeze is released.  In addition to these there are
+some packages with bugs in their dependencies and run level settings,
+which I expect will be fixed in a reasonable time span.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If you report any problems with dependencies in init.d scripts to
+the BTS, please usertag the report to get it to show up at
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=initscripts-ng-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org&quot;&gt;the
+list of usertagged bugs related to this&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Update: Correct bug number to file-rc issue.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
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