Fixing initrd.img and vmlinuz symbolic links after R1 > R2 upgrade

[James2k]

After recently performing the R1 > R2 upgrade process I noticed that the symbolic links to the kernel for initrd.img and vmlinuz are not updated and will still point to the older 2.6.39.4 kernel. This is not a show stopping issue, however it does mean that certain scripts that update boot related actions will automatically go for the older kernel rather than the new kernel which can be a tad annoying. The fix is to remove and recreate the symbolic links manually:

1. cd onto the root of your filesystem:

cd /

Use ls -l to confirm you are on the root of the filesystem. You will see folders like /etc /home /usr etc. All were interested in is the initrd.img and vmlinuz symbolic links which are signified with an -> symbol. These two files are pointing to the boot initrd and vmlinuz files. They will look like this at this point from a R1 > R2 upgrade:

initrd.img -> boot/initrd.img-2.6.39.4
vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-2.6.39.4

These need to be updated to default to the new kernel.

2. Remove the symbolic links with rm:

rm initrd.img && rm vmlinuz

3. Recreate the symbolic links with the following commands:

ln -s boot/initrd.img-3.2.6 initrd.img
ln -s boot/vmlinuz-3.2.6 vmlinuz

4. Re run ls -l to confirm the symbolic links were correctly created. They should now look like this:

initrd.img -> boot/initrd.img-3.2.6
vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-3.2.6

Now the symbolic links point to the newer kernel and running scripts like: update-initramfs -u will automatically select the latest kernel.

Note: This change does not affect the use of the older kernel. Providing you leave the older kernel packages alone you will still be able to boot it with no problem.

[hawk04]

Thank you very much Its Work
Solved the problem I was having them since 3 days
شكراً

[James2k]

No problem !

[m3onh0x84]

thanks a lot, I'm fix this problem. Good job