Re: Patches for the kernel

On Friday 24 September 2004 16:13, Rob Wultsch wrote:
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> I think I will take you up on that offer, however I do not currently
> have a xbox running linux and will not for another couple of weeks.
>
> Does the bootloader for Debian on Xbox get updated when someone
> apt-get install a new kernel as it does for grub normally. I ask this
> because:
> 1.I know that the loader shares a large amount of code with grub already.
Only the FS code. It doesn't share the config format (yet).

> 2. It would make life way easy for the noobies if all they had to do
> to update a kernel was run kpackage or some such.

The answer is currently no.

Pending the outcome of the debate regarding the config file, this might work 
ok if the grub format was used.

David

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