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

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Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2024 07:12:51 +0100
From: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@...mhuis.info>
To: Pavin Joseph <me@...injoseph.com>,
 Linux regressions mailing list <regressions@...ts.linux.dev>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
 Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: guide on bisecting (was Re: [REGRESSION] kexec does firmware
 reboot in kernel v6.7.6)

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