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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

#209133 — kernel symlinks, still needed?

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?

Thanks,
Andrea.

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#209139

On 2019-05-25 18:16 +0200, Andrea Borgia wrote:

> 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?

If you stick to grub, not really.  You can safely delete them, and use

do_symlinks = 0

in /etc/kernel-img.conf so that they will not come back.

Cheers,
       Sven

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#209171

Il 25/05/19 19:24, Sven Joachim ha scritto:


> If you stick to grub, not really.  You can safely delete them, and use
> do_symlinks = 0
> in /etc/kernel-img.conf so that they will not come back.

Thanks, I've just done as you suggested :)

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#209151

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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#209170

Il 26/05/19 00:19, Brian ha scritto:

> Booting from a GRUB prompt can be a little easier when you know that
> the kernel and initrd can be reached from /.

In those cases where the system doesn't boot on its own, I dig out the 
USB drive where I keep the ISOs and run from there.

It's rare enough for me that I would never think of such a use for those 
links but some people might indeed find them useful.

Thanks,
Andrea.

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#209188

On Sun 26 May 2019 at 14:57:57 +0200, Andrea Borgia wrote:

> Il 26/05/19 00:19, Brian ha scritto:
> 
> > Booting from a GRUB prompt can be a little easier when you know that
> > the kernel and initrd can be reached from /.
> 
> In those cases where the system doesn't boot on its own, I dig out the USB
> drive where I keep the ISOs and run from there.

You are in Tokyo. Your laptop doesn't boot. Your USB drive is elsewhere.

> It's rare enough for me that I would never think of such a use for those
> links but some people might indeed find them useful.

It is not about you. The links do no harm whatsoever to anyone's system.
Indeed, their usefulness is evident. I hope others do not follow your
example.

-- 
Brian.

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#209196

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?

  i use refind to boot via UEFI and those links are
nice to use in the configuration file to keep the 
two most recent kernels to boot from the first two
entries.

  if needed i can boot from other kernels via the
old BIOS or GRUB methods, but i haven't for some time.


  songbird  (not everyone uses GRUB

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