http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1988





------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED]  2003-03-13 17:32 -------
Are you sure of this? I don't know if it applies to upgrade, but this is what
happens in Cooker when the kernel changes:

the new kernel package installs itself as /boot/vmlinuz-<version>. It also
creates a symlink to itself as /boot/vmlinuz, removing the previous
/boot/vmlinuz symlink which was to the previous installed version. The
corresponding thing happens for /boot/initrd-<version> and
/usr/src/linux-<version>: they create symlinks to /boot/initrd and
/usr/src/linux . Thus the top entry in lilo.conf doesn't ever need to change,
because it simply points at the symlinks, which are updated by the kernel .RPM.
The link added at the bottom of lilo.conf points not to the symlinks but to the
actual files, so that when you do multiple upgrades (as Cooker users do) all the
kernels remain available from the boot menu (if you run Cooker for a while and
don't prune lilo.conf yourself, you end up with a list of previous kernels as
long as your arm at the bottom of lilo.conf). So the fact that the "linux" entry
isn't changing doesn't mean that it's not referring to a new kernel.



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Using the network.img, I downloaded the RC1 version of MDK and used the
"Upgrade" path. This did not upgrade the kernel. However, there was a lilo entry
for the new kernel, so I am using that and defaulting to that entry.

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