reassign 412799 yaird severity 412799 serious tags 412799 -moreinfo -unreproducible stop
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Svante Signell wrote: > On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 19:58 +0100, maximilian attems wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 07:52:53PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > > > #> dpkg -S /usr/sbin/mkinitrd.yaird > > > yaird: /usr/sbin/mkinitrd.yaird > > > > oh please use mkinitramfs, install initramfs-tools, > > the postinst will pick it up automaticaly without troubles > > as it is the default anyway. > > > > interested if that boots? > #> dpkg -l initramfs-tools > ii initramfs-tools 0.85f tools for generating an initramfs > > Yes it boots. Now the initrd image is much larger: > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4582735 2007-03-19 20:07 initrd.img-2.6.18-4-686 cool sure, the initramfs is generic and will work on any other box. postetch there will be development focus on a good MODULES=dep option. > compared to: > -rw------- 1 root root 1221818 2007-03-19 19:33 initrd.img-2.6.18-4-686 > > According to the description yaird produces more compact images: yeah but broken in so many senses.. > Should I file a bug report for yaird? At least you can close the bug on > the kernel. no need to close, just reassigning. > > and yes i agree that lilo is a pain, with grub you are > > able to easier change boot params on boot. > > Any quick solution to switch from lilo to grub? apt-get install grub grub-install /dev/hda if grub-install fails you might want to use grub cli it's fallback is your best friend. see quick intro change sda to hda for your case http://www.itp.tuwien.ac.at/~mattems/blog/2006/01/18#grub_install thanks for debugging this. :) -- maks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
