[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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