[arch-general] Getting freeze on early start with linux 4.9-1 kernel.

[Doug Newgard]

On Sun, 25 Dec 2016 21:54:32 -0500
Eli Schwartz via arch-general <arch-general at archlinux.org> wrote:

> The blatantly obvious way would be with a dummy kernel package
> containing a symlink to the vmlinuz/initramfs of the latest versioned
> package. Old bootloader configurations don't care about how many new and
> irrelevant files aren't being looked at.
> 
> If you want new bootloader entries to be automatically added in grub.cfg
> then simply use a pacman hook to re-run grub-mkconfig -- I am sure
> something similar can be easily done for syslinux/EFI.
> You can also edit the boot cmdline from grub itself...

Symlinks won't work, as the filesystem of the ESP is generally FAT32. Trying to
automate adding it to bootloaders is also a bad thing, as Arch has no idea how
the user has set them up.
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