On Tue, 2024-11-12 at 23:10 +0100, Iustin Pop wrote: > On 2024-11-12 12:45:47, Michael Stone wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 12, 2024 at 02:14:34PM +0800, kindusmith wrote: > > > In early Unix, boot and vmunix were both stored in the root directory as > > > programs, and boot was used to start vmunix. Debian inherited this for > > > compatibility, but the situation has changed a lot. Today, boot is > > > stored in the root directory as a directory, which already contains the > > > kernel files vmlinuz and initramfs. Therefore, it makes no sense to link > > > vmlinuz and initamfs to the root directory, so the best way is to remove > > > them from the root directory. > > > > You may alter /etc/kernel-img.conf however you wish. > > The question is why on a default install with grub, which doesn't need > nor use the symlinks, are they still created. For most systems, they're > superfluous. > > iustin, who also dislikes these and always needs to disable them
I agree they are not normally needed, but I just never got round to changing the default. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings One of the nice things about standards is that there are so many of them.
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