On Mon, 2014-05-05 at 20:17 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Mon, 2014-05-05 at 20:39 +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: > > As can be seen above, the kernel package does not create symlinks in > > /boot. It creates symlinks in /, but as it is possible (and sometimes even > > necessary, e.g. with encrypted root) to have /boot on a seperate filesystem, > > these are unusable in a boot script. > > Hrm, I thought if /boot was separate the symlink would be made in /boot, > so /vmlinuz of the boot device (whether that was / or /boot) was always > valid. Seems like I was wrong -- I have two systems with separate /boot, > and one has the symlinks in / the other in /boot (and I only looked at > the second last time around). I think I must have some tweaks > to /etc/kernel-img.conf (specifically to link_in_boot) which I'd > forgotten about, sorry for that. > > This does make me wonder if f-k with your patch needs to be more careful > about overwriting /boot/vmlinuz in case it is a symlink.
The official kernel packages will put symlinks in boot if you put:
link_in_boot = yes
in /etc/kernel-img.conf. I believe the Debian installer does that for
some architectures.
Ben.
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