[WBEL-devel] Kernel Update

William Hooper whooperhsd2@earthlink.net
Fri, 5 Dec 2003 11:23:21 -0500 (EST)


John Morris  said:
> On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>
>> One minor thing I noticed (that we probably want to fix) is that the
>> install if the updated kernel wrote the title "Red Hat Linux" in the
>> /boot/grub/grub.conf file.
>
> Yea, I noticed that.  But where does that bit come from?  If it buried in
> the kernel srpm I'd say leave it alone because I don't want to have to
> tamper with every kernel that will come out over the next five years.  But
> if it is in up2date or grub a fix would be great to get into -final.

At least on RHL 9 it is part of /sbin/new-kernel-pkg (which is a bash
script) which gets ran as part of the postinstall scripts for the kernel.

[whooper@srv0712p whooper]$ rpm -q --whatprovides /sbin/new-kernel-pkg
mkinitrd-3.4.42-1
[whooper@srv0712p whooper]$


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William Hooper