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Re: make-kpkg and initrd



On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Eduard Bloch wrote:

> #include <hallo.h>
> Lauri Tischler wrote on Mon Oct 22, 2001 um 09:36:32AM:
> > > > initrd=/boot/initrd
> > > >
> > > > However, the standard make-kpkg install process with '--initrd' flag
> > > > actually creates the file /boot/initrd-2.4.x
> > >
> > > WHAT THE FUCK?
> > >
> > > The current setup uses a SINGLE initrd for ALL kernels?!?!?!
>
> Don't worry, it is just a symlink to the last created initrd image. Hm,
> there were some buggy versions of kernel-package, the 2.4.10 packages in
> woody maybe have been created with a such one.

BZZT! WRONG!

This will never work.  Period.  You *MUST* have a unique initrd for *EACH*
kernel.

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