Bug#280295: nobootloader: [i386] kernel name not displayed correctly

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 05:05:42PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> Package: nobootloader
> Version: 1.02
> Severity: minor
> 
> For i386, the dialog that displays the instructions for setting up the 
> bootloader, shows "the /vmliuz kernel" instead of "the 
> vmlinuz-2.4.27-1-386 kernel".

Because /vmlinuz is a symlink to /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-1-386, so the
boot-loader should load the /vmlinuz file, and that is what it says.

> So, please remove the leading slash and add the full version info.

The kernel name is the full path to the kernel in question, inside the
partition it resides in. That is / or /boot, depending if /boot is a separate
partition.

So, altough the wording may not be the best and lead to confusion, this is
normal behavior, and there is not much we can change about it at this time.

Friendly,

Sven Luther