Bug#3131: kernel package...

[kai@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)]

srivasta@pilgrim.umass.edu (Manoj Srivastava)  wrote on 28.05.96 in <[🔎] gvxn32tnsf7.fsf@diamond.pilgrim.umass.edu>:

> 	What exactly do you want the postinst to do?If a kernel of the
> same version is running, then the symlinks that are in / are already
> in place. I guess it could ask you to run lilo, and/or ask you if you

Something like that is actually essential. If you use lilo and don't run
it at that moment, then an attempt to boot this kernel will (at best) hang
your machine.

I seem to remember some talk about an "installkernel" program ...

MfG Kai