Kernel Installation Options - Quick Poll

[Arkadiy Chapkis - Arc]

  What's wrong with having a standard aboot.conf with a generic "vmlinuz" entry that's a link to the real kernel? This
way a fresh install of the system (and kernel's rpm) doesn't do a thing to aboot.conf. Instead it uses a symbolic link.
And a kernel upgrade would do option 1 (adding an entry to aboot.conf without making it a default).

>On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 11:04:56 -0400, Davis Johnson <davis at frizzen.com> wrote:
>> I'd go with the third, a strong preference.
>
>It occurred to me the other day that there are two distinct times
>where this question becomes an issue - first is an upgrade of a
>running system, the second is during a full system upgrade/install.
>
>In the first case, I think you're dead right. For starters, it can be
>assumed that the system already actually boots, and messing with that
>is a bit stupid.
>
>In the latter case though, I think some sort of reasonable defaults
>are called for. aboot.conf should probably be replaced/installed with
>some reasonable defaults to match the kernel being dropped onto the
>system by the installer.
>
>(I've been thinking about this _way_ too much, considering I've barely
>got Anaconda running in a boot-disc-like environment so far.)
>
>The question remains as to whether "fixing" SRM to match the installed
>system can be done reliably. It's all pretty academic right now,
>anyway. :)
>


                                      Arc C.
                                      achapkis at dls.net