Re: Bug#925379: linux-base: linux-version vmlinuz/vmlinux dichotomy, breaks at least m68k

On 2019-03-24 3:04 a.m., John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> Some time between 4.1.0-2 and 4.19.0-3, m68k kernels switched
>> from vmlinuz-* to vmlinux-*:
> I think on hppa, we switched the other way around. Putting in
> debian-hppa@ into the loop.
Yes, Helge updated palo and switched to building compressed kernels on hppa.  I guess
vmlinuz is supposed to be used with a compressed kernel.  Doing "make zinstall" updates
the links vmlinuz and vmlinuz.old and "make install" updates vmlinux and vmlinux.old.
Which kernel actually boots depends on the config installed by palo.  I have one system
still using vmlinux.  The others use vmlinuz.

I install a lot of custom kernels and I usually also have one Debian kernel installed as well.
initramfs-tools almost always gets the ram file syste links wrong.  So, I have to manually
update the links every time there is an update.