On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 12:05:19PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
also sprach Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.06.19.0208 +0200]:
Changing the bootloader installers in d-i now to accept symlinks
either in / or in /boot (i.e. to be strictly more tolerant) would
make some sense; but it
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 02:11:12AM +0200, Osamu Aoki wrote:
With newer BIOS and newer Lilo and grub, this may not be the issue.
It is if you want to have / on LVM, Soft-RAID5 or similar.
Bastian
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also sprach Bastian Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.06.19.1135 +0200]:
It is if you want to have / on LVM, Soft-RAID5 or similar.
A symlink is not going to fix that.
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also sprach Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.06.19.0208 +0200]:
How about we futz with this sort of thing near the beginning of
a release cycle, not near the end?
Yeah, but that would actually be productive. We wouldn't want that.
I was on a rampage last night. I agree that it should not
Fellow Debianistas,
Why does Debian drop symlinks to vmlinuz and initrd.gz into the root
directory? The FHS does allow it (after all), but it's butt-ugly, if
you ask me.
Can we please use the upcoming release to clean this issue up? It
would require the following, I think:
- change the
[Martin F Krafft]
Why does Debian drop symlinks to vmlinuz and initrd.gz into the root
directory? The FHS does allow it (after all), but it's butt-ugly, if
you ask me.
I do not care much about its uglyness, but it can also be a problem
when using grub and having /boot/ on a separate partition.
On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 15:43, martin f krafft wrote:
Fellow Debianistas,
Why does Debian drop symlinks to vmlinuz and initrd.gz into the root
directory? The FHS does allow it (after all), but it's butt-ugly, if
you ask me.
Because /vmunix is the traditional location of the kernel on Unix and
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 04:00:06PM -0500, Adam Thornton wrote:
Because /vmunix is the traditional location of the kernel on Unix and
Unix-like systems?
*BSD have there kernel in /, but most others don't.
Bastian
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Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
[Martin F Krafft]
Why does Debian drop symlinks to vmlinuz and initrd.gz into the root
directory? The FHS does allow it (after all), but it's butt-ugly, if
you ask me.
I do not care much about its uglyness, but it can also be a problem
when using grub and
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 23:23:00 +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
OTOH, the linux kernel uses this scheme for a very log time now.
Deviating from it will break make oldconfig dep install modules_install
style upgrades from upstream sources.
Wrong. make install is tuned to /boot/{vmlinuz,System.map}, or
also sprach Thiemo Seufer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.06.18.2323 +0200]:
OTOH, the linux kernel uses this scheme for a very log time now.
Deviating from it will break make oldconfig dep install
modules_install style upgrades from upstream sources.
Uh, if I do 'make bzimage', then the kernel
also sprach Adam Thornton [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.06.18.2300 +0200]:
Because /vmunix is the traditional location of the kernel on Unix and
Unix-like systems?
Exactly, which is not enough of a reason to have it their still. Or
what's a /boot for?
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also sprach Petter Reinholdtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.06.18.2249 +0200]:
I do not care much about its uglyness, but it can also be a problem
when using grub and having /boot/ on a separate partition.
If /boot is on a separate partition, then the symlink has no purpose
anyway. If /boot is
martin f krafft wrote:
also sprach Thiemo Seufer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.06.18.2323 +0200]:
OTOH, the linux kernel uses this scheme for a very log time now.
Deviating from it will break make oldconfig dep install
modules_install style upgrades from upstream sources.
Uh, if I do 'make
Joshua Kwan wrote:
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 23:23:00 +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
OTOH, the linux kernel uses this scheme for a very log time now.
Deviating from it will break make oldconfig dep install modules_install
style upgrades from upstream sources.
Wrong. make install is tuned to
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 01:16:15AM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
martin f krafft wrote:
also sprach Thiemo Seufer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.06.18.2323 +0200]:
OTOH, the linux kernel uses this scheme for a very log time now.
Deviating from it will break make oldconfig dep install
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 10:43:00PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
Why does Debian drop symlinks to vmlinuz and initrd.gz into the root
directory? The FHS does allow it (after all), but it's butt-ugly, if
you ask me.
Can we please use the upcoming release to clean this issue up?
How about we
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