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Re: make-kpkg and /vmlinuz



On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 02:10:10PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> I wonder if something is broken here.  A few days ago I compiled 2.2.14
> with make-kpkg and installed it.  When I rebooted, 2.2.13 came up.  As
> I recall, the symlink looked correct, however.

No, now I recall that the symlinks hadn't been changed either.  This is
consistent with what others have reported.  Definitely a bug.

Bob

> 
> After I ran lilo 2.2.14 would boot.  Previously, this was done as part
> of the .deb installation.
> 
> Bob
> 
> On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 02:04:10PM -0600, matt garman wrote:
> > 
> > I was getting a bit of a headache trying to get my new kernel to work,
> > until I realized the following:  I had "image=/vmlinuz" on one line of
> > my /etc/lilo.conf, but /vmlinuz is a symlink into /boot, which hadn't
> > been updated to point to the new kernel.
> > 
> > I thought when I built a kernel with make-kpkg and installed the
> > resulting .deb with dpkg, that either /etc/lilo.conf was updated to see
> > the new kernel, or the /vmlinuz symlink was updated.  Or am I mistaken?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > MG
> > 
> > -- 
> > Matt Garman, garman@ews.uiuc.edu
> > "And through the window in the wall
> >  Come streaming in on sunlight wings
> >  A million bright ambassadors of morning." 
> > 	--Pink Floyd, "Echoes"
> > 
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