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 having /boot/ on a separate partition. Of course > update-grub solve that problem, but I agree with you that it would be > better to keep the boot info in /boot/.
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. (I guess that's the reason why the FHS specifically allows this scheme.) Thiemo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
