Non-important FATAL Error during boot-up

[Ed Fletcher]

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ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY wrote:
| On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 18:22 -0700, Ed Fletcher wrote:
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|>I had this same problem on my laptop and this fixed it.  However, I am
|>curious as to what hw_random is for.  Am I missing something by having
|>it on the blacklist?
|>
|>Thanks,
|>Ed
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|>Ed Fletcher
|>ed at fletcher.ca
|
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| Not much. "hw_random" take advantage of a Hardware Random Generator
| found on some new CPU/Mainboard to feed the /dev/random and /dev/urandm
| devices. Using this hardware device *may* make it more "random" (which
| is a good thing) but the default software random generator found in the
| Linux kernel is very excellent (it generate randomness by monitoring
| your keyboard stroke/mouse movements/hard-disk reading and writing/IRQ
| activates which will give it a really good randomness! It even builds on
| old randomness gathered from the day you installed the system!).
| "hw_random" will, however, make generating random data faster if it's
| supported in your system.
|
| (BTW: I'm using the word "randomness" and I don't know it it's a correct
| English word or not!)
|
| Ziyad.

Ziyad:

Thanks very much for the explanation.  You've made it easy to understand.

And 'randomness' is a word.  http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daw/rnd/

Ed
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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless,
whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism
or the holy name of liberty or democracy?  -  Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

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