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Re: Symbolic links to kernel image files and initial RAM file system image files



On Sat, 2011-07-23 at 17:16 +0200, Bdale Garbee wrote:
> > o  Eliminate symbolic links entirely and require boot loader hook
> > scripts to edit their configuration files
> 
> As much as I would like to support this, what about embedded systems
> where the bootloader is in flash and does not have a configuration file
> in the root filesystem at all?  Right now, it is common to depend on
> symlinks in such a situation to avoid forcing the user to have to
> manually update the flash config.

Why would the user have to do that?  Your hook script can do it.

Ben.

> I'm working today on an armel-based FreedomBox target using u-boot in flash.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Absolutum obsoletum. (If it works, it's out of date.) - Stafford Beer

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