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#1 2015-09-02 02:49:59
- CjStaal
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I have Arch installed, I want to install another arch on a new part.
So, when I installed Arch, it put the vmlinuz-linux and initramfs-linux.img in to /boot. I'm afraid that when I install another distro, it will overwrite these. I'm afraid that if I make /boot/arch/ and put them in there, and change the arch.conf that systemd-boot uses to boot arch, that when pacman needs to rebuild the image it will just put it back in to /boot since pacman doesn't know I moved it. How do I go about moving these 2 files in to /boot/arch and setting up my mkinitcpio and pacman to know I moved them so when they have to update them, they know where to go? This is not an XY problem, I want to have a debian based distro on my laptop as well, and I want to make another Arch install to use with xen as my dom0.
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#2 2015-09-02 03:06:32
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Re: I have Arch installed, I want to install another arch on a new part.
I see I can do mkinitcpio -p linux -g /boot/*customLinuxName*.img, so that's fine. I need to figure out how to deal with the vmlinuz-linux file now.
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#3 2015-09-02 06:14:14
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Re: I have Arch installed, I want to install another arch on a new part.
/etc/mkinitcpio.d
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#4 2015-09-02 13:15:08
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Re: I have Arch installed, I want to install another arch on a new part.
Before you go crazy, see what the debian kernel is named. I don't recall ever encountering another distro that named its kernel 'vmlinuz-linux'. A cursory investigation indicates that debian uses the scheme 'linux-<version>-<architecture>' for example.
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#5 2015-09-02 20:42:51
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Re: I have Arch installed, I want to install another arch on a new part.
I configure my boot{loader,manager}s to boot /vmlinuz & /initrd.img in my Debian system (this is a symlink to the current kernel image and thus never need to be changed, just like the Arch kernal image nomenclature).
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