Bug#550584: flash-kernel not run when going to new upstream kernel version
Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.93.4
Severity: important
When you install a new kernel version (e.g. 2.6.29 -> 2.6.30, or
2.6.30-1 to 2.6.31-2) the new version is not written to flash. This
is because initramfs-tools will only call flash-kernel when updating a
ramdisk (-u), but not when creating one (-c).
I mentioned this problem before, see
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=526640#44
and your response was:
"postinst takes itself care of lilo and folks traditionaly.
also we had a race in sight why this should be used.
sorry i don't rememeber any details right now, was giving a seminar,
will look later in it again."
Since users are running into this problem (I just got another report on
debian-arm), it would be good to look at this again.
--
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/
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