On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 02:54:31PM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > There is no need to modify the boot loader, as the postinst script of > your kernel package does it automatically (if you have the default > /vmlinux and /vmlinux.old images in your yaboot.conf, quik.conf). wrong. quik cannot follow symlinks so you must edit /etc/quik.conf every time to point at the real kernel image (/boot/vmlinux-2.2.19 or whatever). the postinst questions about generating a quik.conf are broken as they will just point quik at a symlink which doesn't work. the postinst bootloader questions are not compatible with yaboot so you should answer no to all of them. with yaboot symlinks are fine so your correct about not needing to modify anything if you have image=/vmlinux IOW the kernel bootloader questions are totally worthless on powerpc, i have filed a bug which is being happily ignored. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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