Re: Patching a kernel source --verbose
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> I use the symlinks /boot/vmlinuz, /boot/initrd.img, /boot/vmlinuz.old
> and /boot/initrd.img.old to point to my current and previous kernels.
> These are listed in my menu.lst. Whenever I update the kernel, if
> /sbin/update-grub is run, it helpfully replaces those with whatever it
> finds. Usually, /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-3-k7 and the like. That is not
> what I want :-) Though, there seems to be no easy way of getting it
> recognize that it should use the symlinks, so I have just disabled
> running update-grub on a kernel install or upgrade.
Try to fiddle with /etc/kernel-img.conf and /etc/kernel-pkg.conf (both of
which have their manpages), I think you can make it behave as you want.
Matej
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