Nick Cabatoff <ncc@cs.mcgill.ca> writes: > > AFAIK all the images do is update the vmlinuz symlink. Why don't you > > just ignore that and specify /boot/vmlinux-x.y.z-foo directly in your > > boot setup? > > They do a lot more than that - the postinst is about 1000 lines of > perl currently I believe. 50 % is user interaction. > I don't want to specify the kernel in my lilo because I want to be > able to use the same lilo.conf for all, or at least most, of our ~100 > debian machines. I don't want to have to change lilo.conf just > because I change the kernel. It would be interesting to know, *which* problem you actually want to solve. In other words, what does the postinst get wrong? In the mean time, maybe "man kernel-img.conf" helps... -- Robbe
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