On Mon 28 Nov 2016 at 11:40:55 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 08:10:04AM -0800, emetib wrote: > > why do the sym links in ls -l / point to /boot/ and boot/ > > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Jun 3 10:34 initrd.img -> > > /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-4-amd64 > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jun 3 10:34 vmlinuz -> > > boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-4-amd64 > > > > is this just a fluke in the way that the two of them were made? > > Yes. As long as you don't do anything fancy like mounting your root file > system somewhere other than root (e.g. after booting from rescue media) > and then trying to use those symlinks. Which shouldn't be used by > anything anyway, except LILO, and you probably shouldn't be using LILO.
I use the symlinks with GRUB. If you give a really, really good reason I'll stop doing it. -- Brian.