/boot filesystem

[Tom H]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 1:33 AM, Mark <mhullrich at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I don't think that anyone needs to try "update-grub" or
>> "update-initramfs ..." with "/boot" unmounted. It won't work. :)
>>
> Oh, it probably will, just not the way you expect - see my prior email
> about what happens when you mount over a "live" directory (or, in this
> case, don't).

Thanks, had missed that email - and that subtlety. Good catch.
"update-grub" will write to the "/boot" directory and apt-get will
save a new kernel there but an "update-initramfs ..." unrelated to a
kernel newly installed into the "/boot" directory will fail.