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Re: afraid to upgrade libc6 and libc6-dev



On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 09:40:48AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 11:06:42AM -0400, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 09:41:09PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > > 
> > > If the filename doesn't change (of the kernel image) i think neither
> > > grub nor lilo need the update. But it doesn't hurt. Unless you changed
> > > menu.lst without reading/understanding the instructions inside.
> > 
> > lilo has to be called if it is a new file, even if it has the same 
> > name.
> 
> Isn't that the purpose of symlinks to kernel images? so you don't have
> to rerun for new kernels with same name?

lilo records the actual location of the file, in hardware disk 
addresses, so that it doesn't have to care about file systems at boot 
time.

-- hendrik



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