Re: afraid to upgrade libc6 and libc6-dev
Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> writes:
> Isn't that the purpose of symlinks to kernel images? so you don't have
> to rerun for new kernels with same name?
This is so that the lilo.conf doesn't need to be changed. The lilo
bootloader doesn't know anything about filesystems. And it doesn't
care about filenames.
When you run lilo it saves raw disk block numbers for where the kernel
and its initrd is stored on disk. Since there is no trivial way to
ensure these blocknumbers don't change when you install a new kernel
you have to rerun lilo.
Matthias
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