Re: make-kpkg
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> The problem is that someone has installed a /vmlinuz. Being
> just a program, the debian kernel image package postinst assumes that
> the sysadmin knows better, and does nothing. If you want the new
> kernel,
> # cd /
> # mv vmlinuz vmlinuz.save
> # ln -s boot/vmlinuz-2.0.32 vmlinuz
I get it now, Thank you, Manoj, for your work on this package and for
your assistance with my problem with it. May I suggest that make-kpkg
print a message when it sees that a kernel image exists in / and that
it will therefore not complete the install? I don't recall putting
vmlinuz in root on Jan 20, I've only used "make install" or make-kpkg
in the past IIRC, but I could well be wrong about this and could
easily imagine doing a "cp /usr/src/linux/vmlinuz /vmlinuz" if I
didn't get the results I expected from one of those processes. In
general, if the package decides to do (or not do) something it
normally would (or wouldn't) do, an error message would be a
great help.
>
> and Re run lilo or whatever you use to boot the machine.
> (remove vmlinuz.save when you feel satisfied). From this time on, the
> upgrades should work better.
>
> manoj
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