/usr/sbin/kernel-helper is in grub 0.97-29ubuntu68.
This file is owned by root:root, with mode 0o755.
The actual contents of the file can be viewed below.
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# -i : Only create symlinks for the running kernel if a last-good-boot doesn't
# already exist.
# -c : Create symlinks for a newly booted kernel. Usually called from an
# init script at the very start of the boot process.
kver=$(uname -r)
mdir="/lib/modules/$kver"
lastkdir="/boot/last-good-boot"
lastmdir="/lib/modules/last-good-boot"
fail_exit_val=1
if test -e /etc/default/kernel-helper-rc; then
. /etc/default/kernel-helper-rc
if [ -n "$DISABLE_LAST_GOOD" ]; then
# Just quit silently
exit
fi
fi
usage() {
echo "Usage: $(basename $0) -i|-u" 1>&2
echo " -i Create initial last-good-boot" 1>&2
echo " -u Update last-good-boot" 1>&2
echo 1>&2
exit 1
}
[ "$#" -ne 1 ] && usage
case "$1" in
-i)
# Create initial last-good-boot.
if [ -d "$lastkdir" ] && [ -d "$lastmdir" ]; then
# Quit silently, a last-good-boot already exists.
exit 0
fi
# No fail here
fail_exit_val=0
;;
-u)
# Update last-good-boot.
;;
*)
usage
;;
esac
if [ "$(id -u)" -ne 0 ]; then
echo "$(basename $0): Need to be root to run this command" 2>&1
exit 1
fi
if grep -q last-good-boot /proc/cmdline; then
# Quit silently. Don't update when booting the last good kernel
exit 0
fi
if [ ! -e "/boot/vmlinuz-$kver" -a ! -e "/boot/$kver/vmlinuz" ]; then
# Fail, since we cannot do anything here
exit $fail_exit_val
fi
rm -rf "${lastkdir}.tmp" "${lastmdir}.tmp"
install -d "${lastkdir}.tmp" "${lastmdir}.tmp"
if [ -e "/boot/$kver/vmlinuz" ]; then
ln -t "${lastkdir}.tmp" /boot/$kver/{vmlinuz,initrd.img,System.map}
else
ln /boot/vmlinuz-$kver "${lastkdir}.tmp/vmlinuz"
ln /boot/initrd.img-$kver "${lastkdir}.tmp/initrd.img"
ln /boot/System.map-$kver "${lastkdir}.tmp/System.map"
fi
cat /proc/cmdline > "${lastkdir}.tmp/cmdline"
echo $kver > ${lastkdir}.tmp/version
if [ -e /proc/version_signature ]; then
cat /proc/version_signature > ${lastkdir}.tmp/version_signature
fi
(cd $mdir && find . -print | cpio --pass-through -d --link \
"${lastmdir}.tmp") > /dev/null 2>&1
# Munge modules.dep
rm -f "${lastmdir}.tmp/modules.dep"
cat $mdir/modules.dep | sed -e \
"s#/lib/modules/$kver/#/lib/modules/last-good-boot/#g" > \
"${lastmdir}.tmp/modules.dep"
rm -rf "${lastkdir}" "${lastmdir}"
mv "${lastkdir}.tmp" "${lastkdir}"
mv "${lastmdir}.tmp" "${lastmdir}"
# We must now run update-grub to get the right cmdline in place
[ ! -e /boot/grub ] || update-grub 2>/dev/null
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