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

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

On Sun, 03 Mar 2024 11:17:44 +0100,
Pavin Joseph wrote:
> 
> On 3/3/24 14:06, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> 
> >> 2. The "installkernel" command is called "kernel-install" in OpenSuse,
> > 
> > Yeah, it looks like that, but that's not really the case. :-) In short:
> > on Fedora "installkernel" calls into kernel-install -- and
> > "installkernel" has a long history, so doing what Fedora does is likely
> > a wise thing for distros. And openSUSE had a "installkernel" as well,
> > which was part of the dracut package. Not sure if that is still the case
> > for current Leap and Tumbleweed. Could you check?
> 
> It's not available even as a symlink in OpenSuse TW / Slowroll I'm afraid.
> 
> suse-pc:~ # whereis installkernel
> installkernel:
> suse-pc:~ # whereis kernel-install
> kernel-install: /usr/bin/kernel-install
> /usr/share/man/man8/kernel-install.8.gz
> suse-pc:~ # man kernel-install | grep -i installkernel
>        installkernel [OPTIONS...] VERSION VMLINUZ [MAP] [INSTALLATION-DIR]
>        When invoked as installkernel, this program accepts arguments
> as specified by the kernel build system's make install command. The
> VERSION and VMLINUZ parameters

FYI, /usr/sbin/installkernel is included in kernel-install-tools
package.


Takashi