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Re: update-initramfs question



On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 04:29:24PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I run this:
> >
> >~Sun Mar 04-13:57:19SDA6# update-initramfs -u
> >
> >and I get:
> >
> >/boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-4-486 does not exist. Cannot update.
> >
> >That happens to be true. (Surprise!)
> >
> >But how does he know that initrd.img-2.6.18-4-486 is the 'newest 
> >kernel' as the man-page has it?
> >
> >uname -r has: 2.6.20-ck1
> 
> Because /sbin/update-initramfs is a script and looks at the initrd.img 
> link in / which pointed to a nonexisting initrd image.
> 
> Apparently 'newest kernel' means 'the kernel whose symlink is pointed to 
> in /.
> 

ah! good info, thanks

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