Bug#361270: Upgrade of initramfs-tools made kernel unbootable with lilo

2006-04-07 Thread David Jarvie
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.59b Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system Upgrading initramfs-tools yesterday caused the current kernel 2.6.15-1 to become unbootable, apparently because the upgrade process regenerated initrd.img-2.6.15-1-k7. The upgrade process should have

Bug#361270: Upgrade of initramfs-tools made kernel unbootable with lilo

2006-04-07 Thread maximilian attems
severity 361270 important tags 361270 moreinfo stop On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 04:43:26PM +0100, David Jarvie wrote: Upgrading initramfs-tools yesterday caused the current kernel 2.6.15-1 to become unbootable, apparently because the upgrade process regenerated initrd.img-2.6.15-1-k7. The

Bug#361270: Upgrade of initramfs-tools made kernel unbootable with lilo

2006-04-07 Thread David Jarvie
On Friday 07 April 2006 16:41, maximilian attems wrote: update-initramfs runs lilo, have you also grub around, I don't use grub, but as you will see below, it is installed. (I have had to use it in the past for system recovery when my commercial boot manager corrupted the MBR.) please post

Bug#361270: Upgrade of initramfs-tools made kernel unbootable with lilo

2006-04-07 Thread maximilian attems
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 08:51:12PM +0100, David Jarvie wrote: On Friday 07 April 2006 16:41, maximilian attems wrote: update-initramfs runs lilo, have you also grub around, I don't use grub, but as you will see below, it is installed. (I have had to use it in the past for system recovery

Bug#361270: Upgrade of initramfs-tools made kernel unbootable with lilo

2006-04-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Fri, 7 Apr 2006 21:30:36 +0200 maximilian attems wrote: On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 08:51:12PM +0100, David Jarvie wrote: On Friday 07 April 2006 16:41, maximilian attems wrote: update-initramfs runs lilo, have you also grub around, I don't use grub, but as you will see below, it is

Bug#361270: Upgrade of initramfs-tools made kernel unbootable with lilo

2006-04-07 Thread David Jarvie
On Friday 07 April 2006 20:30, maximilian attems wrote: On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 08:51:12PM +0100, David Jarvie wrote: if grub is around lilo isn't run. if you really want lilo remove grub from your system and update-initramfs will call lilo. ... i'll document the fact that if you use lilo

Bug#361270: Upgrade of initramfs-tools made kernel unbootable with lilo

2006-04-07 Thread maximilian attems
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 09:58:07PM +0100, David Jarvie wrote: On Friday 07 April 2006 20:30, maximilian attems wrote: On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 08:51:12PM +0100, David Jarvie wrote: if grub is around lilo isn't run. if you really want lilo remove grub from your system and update-initramfs

Bug#361270: Upgrade of initramfs-tools made kernel unbootable with lilo

2006-04-07 Thread David Jarvie
On Friday 07 April 2006 21:44, maximilian attems wrote: kernel-package wants to drop ability to run lilo on the postinstall. grub is the _default_. update-initramfs can easily check for an lilo.conf and warn in those cases. A warning (preferably in the form of a prompt which must be

Bug#361270: Upgrade of initramfs-tools made kernel unbootable with lilo

2006-04-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Fri, 7 Apr 2006 22:44:41 +0200 maximilian attems wrote: On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 09:58:07PM +0100, David Jarvie wrote: On Friday 07 April 2006 20:30, maximilian attems wrote: On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 08:51:12PM +0100, David Jarvie wrote: if grub is around lilo isn't run. if you