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| From | Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: kernel symlinks, still needed? |
| Date | 2019-05-26 00:20 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <y1Nbb-9I-3@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <y1HyN-5ec-1@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
On Sat 25 May 2019 at 18:16:17 +0200, Andrea Borgia wrote: > Hi. > > AFAIK the following symlinks in "/" were required for LILO and are no longer > needed with GRUB2: > initrd.img > initrd.img.old > vmlinuz > vmlinuz.old > > Is there a reason for keeping them around nowadays? Booting from a GRUB prompt can be a little easier when you know that the kernel and initrd can be reached from /. -- Brian.
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kernel symlinks, still needed? Andrea Borgia <andrea@borgia.bo.it> - 2019-05-25 18:20 +0200
Re: kernel symlinks, still needed? Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2019-05-25 19:30 +0200
Re: kernel symlinks, still needed? Andrea Borgia <andrea@borgia.bo.it> - 2019-05-26 15:00 +0200
Re: kernel symlinks, still needed? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2019-05-26 00:20 +0200
Re: kernel symlinks, still needed? Andrea Borgia <andrea@borgia.bo.it> - 2019-05-26 15:00 +0200
Re: kernel symlinks, still needed? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2019-05-26 21:30 +0200
Re: kernel symlinks, still needed? songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2019-05-27 03:10 +0200
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