kernel-img.conf

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Wed Feb 13 15:23:43 UTC 2008


Han Pilmeyer wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 14:59 +0200, Matthias Andersson wrote:
>
>
>   
>> During the setup I looked at the details and saw a message "the
>> /etc/kernel-img.conf file needs to be updated. please read news.debian[1]."
>>
>> I'm unable to find that file news.debian.
>>
>> What exactly should the file state?
>>
>> The current content of /etc/kernel-img.conf:
>> do_symlinks = yes
>> relative_links = yes
>> do_bootloader = no
>> do_bootfloppy = no
>> do_initrd = yes
>> link_in_boot = no
>> postinst_hook = /sbin/update-grub
>> postrm_hook   = /sbin/update-grub
>>     
>
>
> I noticed the same thing last week. When you take a look at
> the /sbin/update-grub script you will notice two things:
>
>      1. The location of the news.debian file that you are looking for
>      2. That instead of /sbin/update-grub the new location is
>         now /usr/sbin/update-grub
>
> I believe this means that you should manually edit the kernel-img.conf
> file and change the location of update-grub.
>
> --
> Han Pilmeyer
> pilux_at_pilmeyer_dot_nl
>
>   
    I checked and found:


karl at karl-desktop:~$ locate update-grub
/sbin/update-grub
/usr/sbin/update-grub
/usr/share/man/man8/update-grub.8.gz
karl at karl-desktop:~$

    So on my computer I have the same name file two places. What me 
worry? :-)


Karl


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