On Mon, 02 Nov 2015 06:23:56 +0100 Christoph Anton Mitterer <cales...@scientia.net> wrote:
I also stumbled upon the fact that /vmlinuz is a relative link (as it should be) and /initrd.img is an absolute link while building a PXE environment. > This is absolutely just cosmetic ;-) Others also noticed the same thing and the absolute link is an issue e.g. in PXE and VM environments. See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=692333#29 and https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=763653#5 > Unless this has some secret reason,... it may be aligned for > cosmetic reasons. I don't think it's purely cosmetic because people have issues with the absolute links. I fail to see a reason why an absolute link should be better, but someone might prove me wrong. And after all this issue is more than three years old: #692333, #763653
