[SLL] Ubuntu Kernel files...always the same name per kernel update...
xeno at eskimo.com
xeno at eskimo.com
Mon Oct 22 12:18:54 PDT 2007
I was obviously unclear. Per kernel update the kernel files are the same, so
I have a bunch of things for i386, Amd64, etc called:
vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic, initrc.img-2.6.22-14-generic
They are called that no matter if they are for AMD64, or KDE AMD64, or Ubuntu
i386. It's not clear that other distributions do anything else, but I would
expect they should. On my CentOS server it has vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.1.14.e15. It's
not clear to me that there is any architecture specific information in that file
name either.
My main point is it would be nice to have a common /boot/grub directory. I'd
like to change the boot preference at boot time by editing or selecting a
different grub.conf file before executing reboot rather than messing with the
grub menu itself. However, without the common /boot directory, it's not clear
the grub config would be available as it would need to be mounted. I could
distribute to all the grub subdirectories on my system when I make the changes,
but that's messy and ugly and makes me feel like grub is grubby.
xc
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