Changes to kernel package and filenames

Aug. 7, 2011 - Dieter Plaetinck

Due to Linux kernel version 3.0 being moved into [core], the kernel26 package has been renamed to linux. Also, filenames of the kernel and initrd's have changed as follows:

  • vmlinuz26 becomes vmlinuz-linux
  • kernel26.img becomes initramfs-linux.img
  • kernel26-fallback.img becomes initramfs-linux-fallback.img

To prevent you from breaking your system after the update, symlinks are created so that your bootloader configuration pointing to the old files will still work. However we recommend updating your bootloader configuration and deleting the symlinks afterwards.