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@ 2000-11-06 17:08 Bill Nottingham
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From: Bill Nottingham @ 2000-11-06 17:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Ross Ridge (ross@sitraka.com) said: 
> Ken Hill writes:
> > sounds like you copied the kernel to /boot/efi using the copy
> > command instead of using cat.
> 
> Just out of curiousity does anyone know why using "cp" rather than
> "cat" would be a problem?  I can't find anything in the archives for
> this mailing list explaining the problem.  My only guess is some sort
> of bug involving sparse files.

There was a problem with this in earlier kernels. I think it's been
fixed for a few months now.

Bill


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