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Re: What's the purpose of initrd.img{,.old} and vmlinuz{,.old} symlinks in the root dir?



Brian composed on 2020-03-01 13:26 (UTC):

> On Sat 29 Feb 2020 at 19:15:12 -0600, David Wright wrote:

>> On Sat 29 Feb 2020 at 19:17:39 (+0100), Mikhail Morfikov wrote:

>>> 	# ls -al /
>>> 	...
>>> 	lrwxrwxrwx   1 root   root 29 2020-02-14 17:22:18 initrd.img -> boot/initrd.img-5.4.0-4-amd64
>>> 	lrwxrwxrwx   1 root   root 27 2020-02-24 00:37:53 initrd.img.old -> boot/initrd.img-5.5.4-amd64
>>> 	...
>>> 	lrwxrwxrwx   1 root   root 26 2020-02-14 17:22:18 vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-5.4.0-4-amd64
>>> 	lrwxrwxrwx   1 root   root 24 2020-02-24 00:37:53 vmlinuz.old -> boot/vmlinuz-5.5.4-amd64

>>> So I have a question here: what's the purpose of the links?

>> They're a convenience. If you want them kept in /boot, then edit
>> /etc/kernel-img.conf and linux-update-symlinks will recreate them
>> there when the kernel is updated. Ditto if you want them removed.

> They are also useful to reference on the linux and initrd lines when
> booting with GRUB to rescue a system. I'd leave them there. 

+ + + :-)

Grub does not like symlinks to un-versioned kernel and initrd in /boot/.
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