Re: guide on bisecting (was Re: [REGRESSION] kexec does firmware reboot in kernel v6.7.6)

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 04.03.24 19:03, Pavin Joseph wrote:
> On 3/4/24 11:46, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> I'm not really familiar with openSUSE, but it set up a TW container and
>> found that a package kernel-install-tools provides installkernel script.
>> Not sure how good it works though. Could you maybe test that?
> 
> Yep, that package got me "installkernel" and it does all the
> installation as expected. I only needed to change the symlink of
> "/boot/<initrd|vmlinuz>" to point to the new ones created by it.

Well, if openSUSE uses those links (other distros don't have them) then
you might want to report a bug to openSUSE.

>> kernel-install is normally meant to copy the image over to /boot/ as
>> well afaik; maybe it did not do that in your case because you already
>> had placed it there manually?
> kernel-install doesn't do that in my testing, it also doesn't remove
> anything AFAICT. 🧐

Ahh what a mess. I will slightly change the text to indicate that might
happen.

Ciao, Thorsten