On Fri, May 01 2009, Alex Goebel wrote:
> Hi
>
>>> Still broken in 12.012, had to generate initrd by hand (mkinitrd).
>>
>> kernel-package no longer does initrd generation. User scripts
>> do.
>
> Oh ok I always thought the (initial) initrd is included in the deb
> package, but I see it's not.
No, initrd images have always been calculated on the target
machine -- this is how it knows what modules to include in the
initramfs.
>
>> Well, that piece of code is provided by the user. Well, what do
>> you have in /etc/kernel?
>> find /etc/kernel -type f -ls
>> Based on the answer to that, we might discover what needs to be
>> changed.
>
> There are two files:
> 335214 4 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 220 Feb 17 06:42
> /etc/kernel/postrm.d/initramfs-tools
> 335224 4 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 264 Feb 17 06:42
> /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools
Which are provided by the tool, initramfs-tools.
> The postinst one contains
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> # passing the kernel version is required
> [ -z "$1" ] && exit 0
>
> # kernel-package passes an extra arg; hack to not run under kernel-package
> [ -z "$2" ] || exit 0
>
And this version explicitly does not support kernel-package
images.
> # we're good - create initramfs. update runs do_bootloader
> update-initramfs -c -t -k "$1"
>
> No idea whether that is 100% correct. Is is the current
> initramfs-tools in unstable.
And so, you have not got anything that tells the postinst that
you want an initrd generated.
If you are running unstable, update to the latest
kernel-package, and read up on /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz
> Interestingly, the update-grub (or so) must have worked, because after
> installation of the kernel image, the new kernel appeared in menu.lst
> (albeit without initrd).
What you need to do is look into the example hook script in
/usr/share/kernel-package/examples/etc/kernel/ and copy over what you
want into /etc/kernel
You also want to read the NEWS.Debian file there, espescilly if
you are following Sid.
manoj
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