Excerpts from maximilian attems's message of Tue Jul 13 18:20:33 +0200 2010: > reassign 588936 kernel-package > stop > > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 05:23:39PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote: > > Package: initramfs-tools > > Version: 0.97.2 > > Severity: normal > > > > > > Hello, > > > > there was a bug about initramfs not created for kernel-package kernels. > > > > I am trying to build a live CD with a kernel-package kernel and the > > initramfs is still not created: > > first of all kernel-package is legacy, use make deb-pkg.
I's nice that Debian support is mainlained but I don't see any documentation for the in-kernel deb packaging so it's almost as good as non-existent. > > > P: Begin install linux-image... > > cp: cannot stat `chroot/boot/initrd.img-*': No such file or directory > > how on earth is this an initramfs-tools trouble? It is a trouble with initramfs and kernel-package integration. For Debian official kernel an initramfs is created, for kernel-package it is not. > > > P: Begin unmounting filesystems... > > r...@virtual:6(2) 07131715 1161]/srv/dl-test # ls chroot/boot/ > > config-2.6.34-1-686 System.map-2.6.34-1-686 vmlinuz-2.6.34-1-686 > > r...@virtual:6(2) 07131716 1162]/srv/dl-test # chroot chroot > > update-initramfs -u -k all > > r...@virtual:6(2) 07131716 1163]/srv/dl-test # chroot chroot > > update-initramfs -c -k all > > both this calls make no sense. Yes, it is too much to ask to have an initramfs generated for kernel-package kernel automatically. > > > r...@virtual:6(2) 07131716 1164]/srv/dl-test # chroot chroot > > update-initramfs -c -k 2.6.34-1-686 > > update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.34-1-686 > > > > Moreover there is no way to diagnose this failure as the initramfs-tools > > kernel postinst.d script does not say if it buils an initramfs or not. > > if it is not invoked not indeed. > proper diagnosis is welcome. So how are the initramfs images created? With some recent kernels like 2.6.32 the issue was resolved by installing a version of /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools from gi which later appeared in a released initramfs-tools package but does not seem to fix the issue in this case nor does it ever print any message about anything it is doing. Thanks Michal -- Michal Suchánek [email protected] tel 224491810 fax 224491594 Univerzita Karlova v Praze Ústav Výpočetní Techniky Ovocný trh 3 Praha 1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
