Bug#718761: flash-kernel: 'root=' kernel param ignored when flash-kernel package is installed

2013-11-12 Thread Loïc Minier
On Sun, Aug 04, 2013, Erik Speckman wrote: If flash-kernel isn't necessary/required on my device, I would expect it to detect that fact rather than rendering my system in an unbootable state. It's probably necessary as on other Kirkwood devices as to generate an uImage / uInitrd. I realize

Bug#718761: flash-kernel: 'root=' kernel param ignored when flash-kernel package is installed

2013-08-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
Copying Loïc Minier. * Erik Speckman especkman+report...@gmail.com [2013-08-04 23:45]: 8. Read through mkinitramfs scripts and found that a hook installed by the flash-kernel package was responsible for the hook script that was setting root=/dev/root in conf/param.con. If flash-kernel

Bug#718761: flash-kernel: 'root=' kernel param ignored when flash-kernel package is installed

2013-08-05 Thread Erik Speckman
Package: flash-kernel Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** Steps which led to the problem: 1. Installed a new kernel package on a functioning system. 2. Generated a new uImage and uInitrd