After installing Debian Wheezy (and generating the u-boot images the unorthodox way), I came to realize that apt-get install --reinstall linux-image-3.2.0-4-kirkwood did not generate the u-boot images. The flash-kernel packages has to be installed by hand, and it even lacks u-boot-tools as a dependency: it's only recommended, but it should NOT, since many of the boards that kernel-flash handles NEED mkimage.
I think it would be *very* important that: 1. u-boot-tools is added as a dep of kernel-flash 2. kernel-flash is added as a dep of linux-image-3.2.0-4-kirkwood (and any newer image) 3. kernel-flash is run after the installation of linux-image-3.2.0-4-kirkwood (and newer): what's the point of installing/updating the kernel if in the end, the installed images are not in the format usable by the bootloader? 4. All of this should be fixed in wheezy and not in newer versions only, since it seems fairly important I'm sorry if this email seems a little rude, I do not want to give the impression of criticizing your work, which I find truly amazing, but it would be a shame not to push the effort just a little further so that the experience can be complete! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
