Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Graham Mitchell" <> | Date | Tue, 30 Apr 1996 03:44:02 +0000 | Subject | Re: My personal wish-list |
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On 29 Apr 96 at 12:11, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
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> Ah no. A / directory full of heaps of kernels? Move the things to > /boot/linux-x.y.z. Do the same with the boot RAM disk (ramdisk-x.y.z). > Either teach the kernel Makefile to add a new entry to lilo.conf, or teach > lilo to auto-add the kernels it finds in /boot when prompted with an > appropriate wildcard. E.g., > > image = /boot/linux-* > initrd = /boot/disk.* > label = * > > would scan for all files matching /boot/linux.*, and subsequently replace > all *s with the part matched (in this case, the version number).
You keep your boot kernels in /....? I've always had mine stuck away in /boot. The idea about making lilo auto-adding the kernels is a good one tho.... Maybe something to be looked into? Or is it time we had a bootfs, with a common, fairly dumb boot loader?
Graham
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