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

To: Mikhail Morfikov <mmorfikov@gmail.com>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: What's the purpose of initrd.img{,.old} and vmlinuz{,.old} symlinks in the root dir?
From: mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2020 16:15:52 +0000
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On 2020-02-29 18:17, Mikhail Morfikov wrote

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


.old is pointing to a newer kernel ?

mick

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