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Re: update-initramfs

From The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: update-initramfs
Date 2023-04-12 14:00 +0200
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On 2023-04-12 at 07:44, Michel Verdier wrote:

> Le 12 avril 2023 The Wanderer a écrit :
> 
>> Without anything more, wouldn't that just result in an extra
>> GRUB-menu entry pointing to the same copy of the kernel/etc.?
> 
> Of course he can change menuentry to point to another kernel/initram

From what I understand matters, the problem is that after he creates the
copy of the initrd, update-initramfs (as run by update-grub) fails,
because the underlying files which it thinks would be needed by an
initrd with the filename that the copy has don't exist.

>> As I think I understand matters, the goal is to have a duplicate
>> copy of the kernel/etc. *and* a separate GRUB menu entry pointing
>> to it, so that if something blows away or otherwise messes up the
>> original the duplicate is still around to serve as a fallback.
> 
> Yes if he points menuentry to the backup he got this fallback.

The question would therefore be how to have the backup copy without
resulting in this update-initramfs failure happening.

About the only possibility I can think of would be to *also* copy the
respective underlying files, so that they are available under the name
update-initramfs expects to see. That would probably make the backup -
and the process of creating it - noticeably more unwieldy, however.

And it's entirely possible that there's some aspect of the process I'm
not seeing which would mean that that wouldn't work.

-- 
   The Wanderer

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.         -- George Bernard Shaw

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update-initramfs Marc Auslander <marcslists@gmail.com> - 2023-04-11 02:30 +0200
  Re: update-initramfs David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-04-11 05:00 +0200
    Re: update-initramfs Marc Auslander <marcslists@gmail.com> - 2023-04-11 17:10 +0200
      Re: update-initramfs davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2023-04-11 19:40 +0200
        Re: update-initramfs Michel Verdier <mv524@free.fr> - 2023-04-11 21:00 +0200
          Re: update-initramfs davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2023-04-11 21:50 +0200
            Re: update-initramfs davidson@freevolt.org - 2023-04-11 22:00 +0200
              Re: update-initramfs zithro <slack@rabbit.lu> - 2023-04-11 22:20 +0200
                Re: update-initramfs David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-04-12 04:10 +0200
            Re: update-initramfs Michel Verdier <mv524@free.fr> - 2023-04-12 04:40 +0200
              Re: update-initramfs The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2023-04-12 13:40 +0200
                Re: update-initramfs Michel Verdier <mv524@free.fr> - 2023-04-12 13:50 +0200
                Re: update-initramfs The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2023-04-12 14:00 +0200
                Re: update-initramfs David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-04-12 22:50 +0200
                Re: update-initramfs Michel Verdier <mv524@free.fr> - 2023-04-13 04:20 +0200
                Re: update-initramfs David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-04-13 21:00 +0200
                Re: update-initramfs Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2023-04-13 22:40 +0200
                Re: update-initramfs David Wright <david@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-04-15 00:50 +0200
                Re: update-initramfs Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2023-04-13 22:50 +0200
                Re: EPSON ET M 1120   new printer: If You can read this, you are  using the wrong driver David <curmudgeon@telaman.net.au> - 2023-04-14 23:40 +0200
                Re: EPSON ET M 1120   new printer: If You can read this, you are  using the wrong driver Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2023-04-15 00:20 +0200
                Re: EPSON ET M 1120   new printer: If You can read this, you are  using the wrong driver The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2023-04-15 00:30 +0200
                Re: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer: If You can read this, you are using  the wrong driver Jeremy Ardley <jeremy@ardley.org> - 2023-04-15 00:40 +0200
                Re: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer: If You can read this, you are  using the wrong driver Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2023-04-15 01:00 +0200
                Re: EPSON ET M 1120   new printer: If You can read this, you are  using the wrong driver Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2023-04-15 01:00 +0200
                Re: EPSON ET M 1120   new printer: If You can read this, you are  using the wrong driver The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2023-04-15 01:10 +0200
                Re: EPSON ET M 1120   new printer: If You can read this, you are  using the wrong driver Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2023-04-15 01:20 +0200
                Re: EPSON ET M 1120   new printer: If You can read this, you are  using the wrong driver The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2023-04-15 01:30 +0200
                Re: EPSON ET M 1120   new printer: If You can read this, you are  using the wrong driver Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2023-04-15 13:40 +0200
                Re: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer: If You can read this, you are using  the wrong driver Jeremy Ardley <jeremy@ardley.org> - 2023-04-15 01:10 +0200
                Re: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer: If You can read this, you are using  the wrong driver Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2023-04-15 01:20 +0200
                Re: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer: If You can read this, you are using  the wrong driver Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> - 2023-04-15 01:50 +0200
                Re: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer: If You can read this, you are  using the wrong driver David <curmudgeon@telaman.net.au> - 2023-04-15 01:50 +0200
                Re: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer: If You can read this, you are using  the wrong driver "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2023-04-15 12:10 +0200
                Pillow fight [was: EPSON ET M 1120 ...] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-04-15 12:20 +0200
                Re: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer: If You can read this, you are using the wrong driver "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2023-04-15 13:00 +0200
                On strange threads [was: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer...] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-04-15 15:40 +0200
                Re: On strange threads [was: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer...] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2023-04-15 21:50 +0200
                Re: On strange threads [was: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer...] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-04-16 07:40 +0200
                Re: On strange threads [was: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer...] davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2023-04-16 09:10 +0200
                Re: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer: If You can read this, you are using  the wrong driver Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2023-04-15 13:50 +0200
                Re: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer: If You can read this, you are using  the wrong driver Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> - 2023-04-15 22:00 +0200
                Re: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer: If You can read this, you are using  the wrong driver Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> - 2023-04-15 22:30 +0200
                Re: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer: If You can read this, you are using  the wrong driver Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2023-04-16 00:20 +0200
                Re: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer: If You can read this, you are using  the wrong driver Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> - 2023-04-16 01:40 +0200
                Re: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer: If You can read this, you are  using the wrong driver Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2023-04-22 16:30 +0200
                Re: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer: If You can read this, you are using  the wrong driver chris <tknchris@gmail.com> - 2023-04-22 16:40 +0200
                Re: EPSON ET M 1120   new printer: If You can read this, you are  using the wrong driver David <curmudgeon@telaman.net.au> - 2023-04-15 01:30 +0200
                Re: EPSON ET M 1120   new printer: If You can read this, you are  using the wrong driver <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-04-23 11:20 +0200
                Re: EPSON ET M 1120   new printer: If You can read this, you are  using the wrong driver <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-04-23 11:50 +0200
                Re: EPSON ET M 1120   new printer: If You can read this, you are using the wrong driver Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-04-15 00:40 +0200
                Re: EPSON ET M 1120   new printer: If You can read this, you are  using the wrong driver Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2023-04-15 14:00 +0200
                Re: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer: If You can read this, you are using  the wrong driver Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2023-04-29 13:50 +0200
                Re: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer: If You can read this, you are using  the wrong driver Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-05-01 13:40 +0200
                Re: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer: If You can read this, you are using  the wrong driver Thomas Hochstein <thh@thh.name> - 2023-05-01 14:40 +0200
                Re: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer: If You can read this, you are using  the wrong driver gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-05-01 15:30 +0200
        Re: update-initramfs davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2023-04-12 13:00 +0200
          Re: update-initramfs davidson@freevolt.org - 2023-04-12 13:00 +0200
      Re: update-initramfs David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-04-11 22:10 +0200
  Re: update-initramfs zithro <slack@rabbit.lu> - 2023-04-11 15:30 +0200
    Re: update-initramfs Marc Auslander <marcslists@gmail.com> - 2023-04-11 17:00 +0200
      Re: update-initramfs zithro <slack@rabbit.lu> - 2023-04-11 18:10 +0200

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