On 19 October 2012 21:23, Amit <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have built custom kernel, pushed it to the local apt repository and > the kernel installs successfully. However, in the binary linux image > state, I get an error regarding missing initrd-*. > > After digging deeper, the initrd is only generated if the > /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools script exists during the kernel > install. However, when building the live image, the custom kernel is > installed before *initramfs-tools* package (which is where the > /etc/kernel/...) scripts come from. > > Any ideas on why the order is not as it should be? >
If you built with kernel-package you need the --initrd parameter for initrd to be built. Even then with some combination of kernel-package and initramfs-tools the initrd is not built so if it's the case just write a hook to build an initrd for every kernel installed. It seems neither kernel-package nor initramfs-tools maintainers are really willing to work on fixing initramfs bugs related to kernel-package built kernels and will just blame the issue on the other package or lack of user experience or w/e. If you built with make deb in kernel tree .. that's just useless. No configurability, no docs, nothing. Sadly, kernel-package is supposedly deprecated in favour of this useless upstream feature. HTH Michal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOMqctRS+fUZcuk5g64xZfb==71qb9mkxjol-3fs2yvt0ee...@mail.gmail.com
