Bug#321752: linux-image-2.6.12-1-k7: generates incorrect /vmlinuz, /initrd.img links

[Baurzhan Ismagulov <ibr@radix50.net>]

Package: linux-image-2.6.12-1-k7
Version: 2.6.12-1
Severity: normal


Hello,

I've installed the package and asked it to run lilo. It said:

...
Testing lilo.conf ... 
An error occurred while running lilo in test mode, a log is
available in /var/log/lilo_log.1891. Please edit /etc/lilo.conf
manually and re-run lilo, or make other arrangements to boot 
your machine. 
         Please hit return to continue

The log file contained the following line:

Fatal: open /vmlinuz: No such file or directory

I looked at the links. They were broken:

initrd.img -> /boot/-2.6
vmlinuz -> /boot/-2.6

Thanks in advance,
Baurzhan.

P.S. Is there any reason why the links are absolute now? The old kernel
     packages used relative links (e.g., vmlinuz.old ->
     boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11-1-k7), this was very convenient to mount the
     filesystem on a directory other than root and still use the links.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.13-rc5
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

-- no debconf information