Am Dienstag, den 13.04.2021, 14:16 +0200 schrieb Takashi Iwai:
I don't think that the proposal is about breaking such installations. Instead of putting the stuff like vmlinuz and initrd under /boot directly, keep those in the normal place. And for the system that needs the extra /boot partition, we may tweak somehow, e.g. creating symlinks or copying the files in post script or such. This sounds like a feasible option. But we have to be really careful; as usual, devils living in details...
That makes things more complicated than they now are and drives up the number of test cases. Putting things into different logical places depending on configuration is somewhat inverted. /boot today exists because the boot loader may be unable to read / It really does not matter for which reason this inability exists unless we are ready to remove them all (or drop support). It seems to me that that is not the case. Hence if we want a unified solution the kernel will have to stay where it is. Regards Oliver