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kernel symlinks, still needed?

From	Andrea Borgia <andrea@borgia.bo.it>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	kernel symlinks, still needed?
Date	2019-05-25 18:20 +0200
Message-ID	<y1HyN-5ec-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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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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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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