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<H1>[Mageia-discuss] Bug or Feature?</H1>
<B>Wolfgang Bornath</B>
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<I>Sat Apr 7 20:09:23 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>2012/4/7 Thomas Backlund <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">tmb at mageia.org</A>>:
><i> 07.04.2012 20:59, imnotpc skrev:
</I>>><i> On 04/07/2012 12:43 PM, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
</I>>>><i> 2012/4/7 imnotpc<<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">imnotpc at rock3d.net</A>>:
</I>>>>><i> On 04/07/2012 09:35 AM, Frank Griffin wrote:
</I>>>>>><i> On 04/07/2012 08:51 AM, imnotpc wrote:
</I>>>>>>><i> I just discovered that when a new kernel package is installed the grub
</I>>>>>>><i> menu entry is added to the bottom rather than the top. The result is that
</I>>>>>>><i> the original kernel remains the default and new kernels not used. Most of my
</I>>>>>>><i> systems are only accessed through ssh so I had no idea the new kernels
</I>>>>>>><i> weren't being used and this only came to my attention today when another
</I>>>>>>><i> update, probably dbus, broke the old kernel and hung all my boxes during
</I>>>>>>><i> reboot.
</I>>>>>>><i>
</I>>>>>>><i> I would think that if you install an update the expectation is that it
</I>>>>>>><i> would be used by default. I haven't had time to check yet, but this may also
</I>>>>>>><i> be the cause of other bugs I've been having. Is this a bug or intended
</I>>>>>>><i> behavior?
</I>>>>>>><i>
</I>>>>>><i> Not so.  The default uses the symlinks for vmlinuz and initrd which are
</I>>>>>><i> version-independent, and the kernel install redefines them to point to the
</I>>>>>><i> new kernel.  The entry tacked on to the end uses the new versoins by name,
</I>>>>>><i> and is there so that after the next new kernel comes along you'll have an
</I>>>>>><i> entry to boot this one if you need to.
</I>>>>><i>
</I>>>>><i> So the first and last menu entry are the same most recent version? Then this
</I>>>>><i> is probably a bug since the symlink entry won't boot but the entry at the
</I>>>>><i> bottom that lists the version by name boots fine.
</I>>>><i> Then something went wrong during installation of the new kernel. Could
</I>>>><i> you please show the output of
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> $ ls -l /boot
</I>>>><i>
</I>>><i> I don't think it effects this output, but just so you know I deleted
</I>>><i> most of the unused entries from the grub menu and moved the most recent
</I>>><i> version to the top so it would boot again if there was a power failure.
</I>>><i> The curious thing is I expected vmlinuz-3.3.1-desktop-1.mga2 to be here
</I>>><i> but it isn't. This box has received every update that has come out.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> [<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">root at Cedar1</A> jalaramie]# ls -l /boot
</I>>><i> total 20792
</I>>><i> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     440 Apr  7 08:14 boot.backup.sda
</I>>><i> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      27 Apr  7 08:17 config ->
</I>>><i> config-3.3.1-desktop-2.mga2
</I>>><i> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  135041 Feb 16 09:36 config-3.2.6-desktop-3.mga2
</I>>><i> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  136931 Apr  4 06:15 config-3.3.1-desktop-2.mga2
</I>>><i> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 Mar 21 19:03 dracut/
</I>>><i> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  537088 Apr  3 14:22 gfxmenu*
</I>>><i> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 Apr  7 08:14 grub/
</I>>><i> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5715971 Apr  3 14:22 initrd-3.2.6-desktop-3.mga2.img
</I>>><i> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5733762 Apr  5 07:32 initrd-3.3.1-desktop-2.mga2.img
</I>>><i> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      31 Apr  5 07:32 initrd-desktop.img ->
</I>>><i> initrd-3.3.1-desktop-2.mga2.img
</I>><i>
</I>><i> You are missing the symlink initrd.img -> initrd-3.3.1-desktop-2.mga2.img
</I>><i> that is used on default setups...
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Yes, that's what I wanted to see the listing for.
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wobo
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