Bug#291953: mkinitrd mistetects root as being on a DM device

[Tore Anderson <tore@debian.org>]

Package: initrd-tools
Severity: important

  Some time ago, mkinitrd began failing on me.  The error message is
 "Root is on a DM device, but dmsetup not installed".  However, this is
 incorrect - / is on /dev/hda5, a very normal ATA hard drive.  There are
 some LVM stuff on the machine, but not the root file system, so there
 should be no need to touch any DM/LVM stuff during the initrd phase of
 system startup.  (Indeed, it never has either until recently.)

  Severity set to important because this makes it impossible to install
 kernel-image debs.

  Installing dmsetup fixes the problem though, the resulting initrd is
 bootable.

-- 
Tore Anderson