Re: lilo replaces GRUB when installing new kernel

[Daniel Stojanov <s3107265@student.rmit.edu.au>]

Norbert Tretkowski wrote:
> * martin f krafft wrote:
>   
>> Daniel Stojanov <s3107265@student.rmit.edu.au> [2006.07.25.0335 +0100]:
>>     
>>> The following extra packages will be installed:
>>>   busybox-cvs-static klibc-utils libhtml-template-perl libklibc
>>>   libparse-recdescent-perl libvolume-id0 lilo linux-source-2.6.16 lsb-base
>>>   makedev module-init-tools yaird
>>>       
>> I do also wonder why linux-source is being pulled in. Any clues?
>>     
>
> Indeed, strange... Daniel, does this also happen when you don't use
> yaird, but initramfs-tools instead?
>
> aptitude -t sarge-backports install linux-image-2.6.16-2-k7 initramfs-tools grub
>
>                 Norbert
>
>
>   

1) I installed the backport of GRUB and then the new kernel and it
happily stayed with GRUB
2) about the linux-source package, i had the corresponding source
package for the old kernel installed, would that matter.


aptitude -t sarge-backports install initramfs-tools

gives the following

Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  initramfs-tools: Depends: udev (>= 0.086-1) but 0.056-3 is to be installed