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Re: kernel updates - was: adding a kernel from backports



On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 04:33:11AM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> Rob Owens wrote:
> > What's the proper way to handle this?
> 
> as i already said before: kernel selection/inclusion needs to be done at
> build time.
> 
> why? because vmlinuz and initrd that are used to boot are in the binary
> image, not in the filesystem.
> 
Would it suffice to copy vmlinuz and initrd from a newly-built image
into my existing one?  (and update the appropriate syslinux files)  Or
is there more to it than that?

-Rob


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