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From: Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@systec-electronic.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:16:03 +0200
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Subject: Re: [ptxdist] Creating hardlinks withing ptxdist?
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Am Mittwoch, 18. April 2012, 16:44:06 schrieb Michael Olbrich:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 02:08:10PM +0200, Alexander Stein wrote:
> > is it possible to create hardlinks within ptxdist? Our current problem is
> > that the kernel image is located in /boot/bzImage, as usually. But we
> > need the also the file under /efi/boot/bootia32.efi to be bootable from
> > EFI. A symlink doesn't work from EFI side and I don't want to maintain 2
> > binaries in parallel, despite the space wasting. So I got the idea of
> > using a hardlink. Seems to work, manually created.
> 
> You could try a postinst script. But I'm not sure if the tools that create
> the images can handle hardlinks.
> Or only install /efi/boot/bootia32.efi and not /boot/bzImage, or do you
> need that as well?

Well, I don't need /boot/bzImage necessarily, I think. But the kernel image 
would be in the default place and so I could still boot from this image with a 
non-EFI bootloader.

Best regards
Alexander
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