Package: initramfs-tools I use one hard drive on several different ARM machines for tests from time to time, so I have kernels for different subarches installed. /boot/vmlinux may point to a kernel that is not the current subarch. When I ran update-initramfs with a specific kernel, I get the following:
| foobar:/etc/initramfs-tools# update-initramfs -u -k 2.6.28-1-ixp4xx | update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-1-ixp4xx | Kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.29-rc8-kirkwood does not match your subarchitecture | ixp4xx, therefore not writing it to flash. Now this situation is not common, but it shows a more general problem: when /boot/vmlinux points to version 1 but you run update-initramfs on version 2 it will still write version 1 to flash. I think it should either write version 2 to flash or not write anything to flash (and only update the ramdisk on disk). The easiest solution is probably to pass a specific version to flash-kernel. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
