That sounds like a knotty task. Is lilo not yet deprecated for Ubuntu 12.04+ on all platforms? Ok, myself is a limited sample, but I've not seen it in the last 10ish years even on non-Debian. What if the added symlinks were only done for Grub, or can't the installer work out what the bootloader is? <SNIP> > I'd like to see everything collected in /boot <SNIP> It sounds like what I am suggesting is in line with current thinking and if no current enhancement request exists (I can't find one) then I ask that I should create this one. I don't think I've got the knowledge or regression test platforms to be able to determine the effects. I'll leave this thread for a few days to give other a chance to chip in. Regards, Jason. From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> To: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com, Date: 14/07/2015 13:38 Subject: Re: Kernel install in boot with GRUB Sent by: ubuntu-devel-discuss-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com <hr noshade> On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 01:22:17PM +0100, <a href=mailto:jason.morgan@aveillant.com>jason.morgan@aveillant.com</a> wrote: > Can anybody recall the purpose behind the 'historical compatibility' , is > there a previous bug that I can reference in our documentaiton? One problem is that the default lilo configuration had problems with it (<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=329994">https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=329994</a>). I'd like to see everything collected in /boot, indeed, but somebody is going to need to go through base-installer and kernel packaging revision history in some detail to work out all of the ramifications. -- Colin Watson [<a href=mailto:cjwatson@ubuntu.com>cjwatson@ubuntu.com</a>] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss</a>