Bug#200512: kernel-installer: the created initrd.img link in / does not point to the initrd in /boot
Package: kernel-installer
Version: 0.023 (not installed)
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system
When the kernel installer installs a kernel, it creates two symlinks
initrd.img and vmlinuz in /.
While vmlinuz correctly points to the kernel in /boot, initrd.img points
to an initrd in /, where iactually no initrd resides (it is also in /boot):
This will now make lilo-installer guess that a non initrd kernel is
installed and will not add the initrd entry.
The consequence is that no initrd will be loaded at reboot and when
modules are needed to mount the root image (e.g. root is on ext3 or on
some scsi disk) the kernel will panik because it is unable to mount the
root partition.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux coyote 2.4.20 #1 Fri Jun 13 19:12:09 CEST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro
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