On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 01:15:52PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:54:21AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've experienced the same problem. I've got two lenny machines which have > > GPT paritition tables and Linux root on LVM, and they can't use anything but > > LILO (there are some novelty hacks for GRUB but I haven't been able to test > > them yet because this is in production). I have kernel-img.conf set up > > right, but after upgrading linux-image-2.6.26-2-686, I just get the "not > > updating symbolic links" messages and no triggers or boot loaders are run. > > If left unattended, this typically renders these two systems unbootable. > > > > It really looks like a failure to define the $loader variable in the > > predefined variables section. If I just put 'lilo' in there and re-run > > dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.26-2-686, the output changes to: > > > > Running depmod. > > Running mkinitramfs-kpkg. > > Not updating initrd symbolic links since we are being updated/reinstalled > > (2.6.26-19lenny1 was configured last, according to dpkg) > > Not updating image symbolic links since we are being updated/reinstalled > > (2.6.26-19lenny1 was configured last, according to dpkg) > > You already have a LILO configuration in /etc/lilo.conf > > Running boot loader as requested > > Testing lilo.conf ... > > Testing successful. > > Installing the partition boot sector... > > Running /sbin/lilo ... > > Installation successful. > > > > This is what would be expected. The run_lilo() function goes out of its way > > to determine whether the existence of /etc/lilo.conf is sufficient reason to > > run lilo, so there doesn't appear to be any reason to completely omit it. > > from the affected box: > cat /etc/kernel-img.conf
I fail to see the benefit, but here goes - on both it's identical: % cat /etc/kernel-img.conf # Kernel image management overrides # See kernel-img.conf(5) for details do_symlinks = yes relative_links = yes do_bootloader = yes do_bootfloppy = no do_initrd = yes link_in_boot = yes -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org