RE: [Fedora-ia64-list] Kernel directory change

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Chapman [mailto:dchapman@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 9:04 PM
> To: ia64 Fedora Core Development
> Cc: Zhan@xxxxxxxxxx; Zhan, Yi; Development discussions related to Fedora
> Subject: Re: [Fedora-ia64-list] Kernel directory change
> 
> On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 08:58 +0800, Zhang, Yanmin wrote:
> > Yi,
> >
> > I installed FC9 Beta ia64 on my Montvale machine and found the kernel
> > directory is changed. The old directory is /boot/efi/efi/redhat, but the
> > new one is /boot/efi/EFI/redhat. Is there any special reason to do so?
> >
> > A couple of test suites assumes /boot/efi/efi/redhat.
> >
> > -yanmin
> >
> 
> This changed a while back.  What it appears happened was that the vfat
> filesystem for some reason now understands upper/lower case.  In
> actuality it was always /boot/efi/EFI but the linux implementation of
> vfat shifted the directory name to lower case.
> 

Yes the file system changing might be the point. There is a "%define image_install_path boot/efi/EFI/redhat" for ia64 in kernel.spec since fc4. 
So the kernel dir was always /boot/efi/EFI/redhat.

Yi


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