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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] (revised slightly) create kernel symlinksin /boo

On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 21:20 +0000, Christian Limpach wrote:
> Yes, but we don't change kernel versions that often and it's easy to
> fix this from grub's boot prompt should the old kernel no longer boot.
But by then, it's already failed, possibly in a very confusing way.

> How about adding this to install.sh:
> (run in dist/install/boot)
> (echo '2.6.*' -2.6; echo '2.4.*' -2.4) | while read m v
> do
>   l=$(eval ls -t vmlinuz-$m-xen0 2>/dev/null | head -1)
only nitpick here is -n1 for head (some versions of head are picky about
that now)

Otherwise that works for me.  The reason I'm looking for something like
this, is so that I can set up automated testing of xen nightly tarballs.
This would greatly simplify things, as well as help prevent others from
getting bit by the kernel upgrade thing.
 
-- 
Thanks,
Paul Larson
plars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.linuxtestproject.org

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