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Re: [ot] <rant>grub is great!</rant>



>>"Andreas" == Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de> writes:

 Andreas> Once I've noticed it I'm once more impressed of the power of
 Andreas> kernel-package. 
 Andreas> But it has to be
 Andreas>    image_dest=/boot/
 Andreas>                    ^

	No, It doesn't, if you happen to have the latest
 kernel-package. We now have the following code:
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$image_dest = "$image_dest/"; 
$image_dest =~ s|/+$|/|o; 
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 Andreas> to let the install process work properly (else it trys to link
 Andreas> /bootvmlinuz on my box).

	You need top upgrade your kernel-package. 

 Andreas> Moreover the link is to

 Andreas>    /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.7

 Andreas> which doesn't help at all for the grub problem, because grub
 Andreas> will not find the kernel image in the case that /boot is a
 Andreas> separate partition.  Any solution how it could be done
 Andreas> correctly?

	Again, the solution is to upgrade kernel-package to a version
 that honours relative_links. 

	manoj

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