Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2271 mails)

[Josh Berkus <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Anders,

> I beg your pardon? I've installed several dozen suse kernel rpms, and I've 
> never seen one yet that didn't update /boot. Is /boot on a separate 
> partition, and was in mounted when you installed the rpm?

It's on the same partition.   The package I installed is 
kernel-source-2.4.166-i586.rpm.   There isn't another kernel package that I 
can find, on my system or off it.

To demonstrate:

temoku:/var/lib/YaST2/you/mnt/i386/update/9.0/rpm/i586 # rpm -Uvh --force 
kernel-source-2.4.21-166.i586.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:kernel-source          ########################################### [100%]
temoku:/var/lib/YaST2/you/mnt/i386/update/9.0/rpm/i586 # cd /boot
temoku:/boot # ls
.                                  initrd-2.4.21-199-default
..                                 initrd.shipped
Kerntypes-2.4.21-199-default       lost+found
System.map                         message
System.map-2.4.19-4GB.pre-win4lin  vmlinux-2.4.21-199-default.gz
System.map-2.4.21-199-default      vmlinuz
System.map.win4lin                 vmlinuz-2.4.21-199-default
boot                               vmlinuz.shipped
config-2.4.21-199-default          win4lin
grub                               win4lin.config
initrd

As you can see, boot still has the same vmlinuz etc.
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-Josh Berkus

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