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Re: INSTALL kernel



On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 05:17:32PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 04:10:44PM +0100, Stephen Borrill wrote:
> > >Indeed it does work. This needs to be loudly documented.
> > 
> > Not good if providing the filename with dhcp, surely.
> > 
> > Perhaps pxeboot needs to be taught boot.cfg smarts.
> 
> Sure, and there are other cases where this won't work (like, dropping an
> install kernel in / on an existing install - you need the install module
> to upgrade the boot loader to a version which will be able to load the
> install module ...)

I'm not sure that I understand the problem.  If you're dropping in an
install kernel in /, can't you drop in a new boot loader, too?

Dave

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