Kernel install in boot with GRUB

Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Tue Jul 14 11:56:32 UTC 2015


On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 10:51:21AM +0100, jason.morgan at aveillant.com wrote:
> If the installer were to simply add the symlinks /boot/vmlinuz and 
> /boot/inirtd.img, pointing to the latest kernel things would be much 
> simpler.
> It already adds symlinks in /, so placing them in /boot is trivial.

There's support for this, but it's disabled by default, I think for
historical compatibility of some kind.  Preseeding
base-installer/kernel/linux/link_in_boot=true should enable it, though.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]




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