https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=393030 User mmeeks@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=393030#c13 Michael Meeks <mmeeks@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Severity|Major |Critical Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Resolution|INVALID | Summary|kernel install/remove leaves broken system ... |live-CD kernel install/remove leaves broken | |system ... Version|Beta 2 |RC 1 --- Comment #13 from Michael Meeks <mmeeks@novell.com> 2008-06-02 03:47:46 MDT ---
Sorry, but I have to disappoint you. In both cases of either a fresh installation or and "normal" kernel update long names of images (vmlinuz & initrd) will be entered in the menu.lst, e.g. "vmlinuz-2.6.22.17-0.1-default" or "initrd-2.6.22.17-0.1-default", to avoid above described confusions.
Re-opening & bumping priority - I just did a live-CD install of RC1; and my /boot/grub/menu.lst emphatically uses symlinks to initrd and vmlinuz: $ ls -l /boot total 12644 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 2 09:42 grub lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Jun 2 09:42 initrd -> initrd-2.6.25.4-8-default -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5777149 Jun 2 09:42 initrd-2.6.25.4-8-default .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Jun 2 09:36 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.6.25.4-8-default -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2125760 May 27 01:47 vmlinuz-2.6.25.4-8-default $ cat grub/menu.lst # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Mon Jun 2 09:42:30 BST 2008 default 0 timeout 8 gfxmenu (hd0,5)/boot/message ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title openSUSE 11.0 root (hd0,5) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD800BB-75FWD-WCAJD1497090-part6 resume=/dev/sda5 splash=silent showopts vga=0x305 initrd /boot/initrd ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows### title Windows rootnoverify (hd0,5) chainloader (hd0,1)+1 ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: floppy### title Floppy rootnoverify (hd0,5) chainloader (fd0)+1 ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe### title Failsafe -- openSUSE 11.0 root (hd0,5) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD800BB-75FWD-WCAJD1497090-part6 showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off x11failsafe vga=0x305 initrd /boot/initrd
Using symlinks for those file as in your case most likely stems from a manual intervention, thus there's nothing systematic I can do. Changing the symlinks (thus let them point to a new image) even happens in the post install/uninstall script of kernel packages, which I'm not responsible for. And I don't think this will be changed due to legacy issues IMHO.
Quite possibly this is a live-CD specific problem; re-opening & upping priority. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.