On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 09:17:12PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> writes: > > > that was when yaboot shipped with a config file, now it doesn't and > > yabootconfig doesn't put a backup image in by default. > > > > i could add that i suppose, what do people think? > > It can't hurt anything, right? And it will be helpful in the case > where someone installs a broken kernel .deb. nope, unlike lilo yaboot doesn't care about image entries that point to nonexisting files, you only notice if you try and boot one and yaboot gives you a No such file or directory error. the only problem i can think of is people wondering why yabootconfig generates a config with an image entry pointing to a non-existing kernel. also keep in mind that its not strictly necessary, yaboot reads the filesystem dynamically so you can boot anything you want regardless of whether its listed in the config or not: boot: hd:3,/vmlinux.old root=/dev/hda3 one thing i keep forgetting to add is a `help' command which explains the bare basics of yaboot in a screenfull or less... -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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