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Re: Bug#425050: initramfs-tools: Ask if we should update all initramfses



also sprach Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> [2007.05.20.2102 +0200]:
> That sounds to me like addressing the wrong problem. Maybe what should
> be done is that update-initramfs updates *all* the images, whatever
> happens, but a copy of the kernel and initramfs images used to boot the
> system as it is at the moment should be kept somewhere and a special
> grub/lilo/whatever item like "Last successful boot setup" should be added
> using these.

I would second this, but I think the two can be implemented
separately as the initrd should be copied during early rcS and not
when update-initramfs is called.

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