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Re: Switching from BootX to quik



On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 04:00:56PM -0500, Eric C. Cooper wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 01:51:04PM -0500, Rich Johnson wrote:
> > The time has come for me to decommission OS 9 from my old-word 8500 and 
> > go pure linux--but to do it without re-installing or repartitioning the 
> > disks.

[...]

> One thing that I got bitten by: quik doesn't understand symlinks, so
> /vmlinux should be a hard link to /boot/vmlinux-NNN.  Also, updating
> the kernel image via apt-get or dpkg invariably messes up the links;
> you'll have to fix them by hand each time.

I am also interesting boot with quick, but I thought that required an
non-initrd kernel. Thus, I thought, you could not use stock debian
kernels. Is it only 2.6 kernels that use initrd by default in Debian?
Or can quick handle initrd kernels? Or is there another way of doing it?

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Note that I use Debian version 3.1
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