Bug#343048: linux-image-2.6.14-2-686: no need to install initramfs-tools
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On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 17:09:26 +0100
Michael Setzer <michael.setzer@celeborn.de> wrote:
> after being knocked down with the same problem which left my system in
> an unbootable state I wondered if it wasn't possible to bring the
> system back to life without removing yaird. This is what I simply did:
>
> - boot system with KNOPPIX
> - mount the root partition
> - remount the /dev into the root partition
> - chroot into your root partition
> - mount /proc
> - mount /sys
> - edit /etc/yaird/Default.cfg and add
> MODULE ide-generic
> MODULE ide-disk
> right after the "MODULE evdev" line
> - dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.14-2-686
> - umount /sys
> - umount /proc
> - leave chroot'ed partition and umount it
>
> And right after a reboot your system is usable again. :)
Thanks!
For the first half involving KNOPPIX one could also use GRUB (or
similarly capable bootloaders) and make sure to always keep an older
kernel version installed to use in case of upgrade problems like this.
Still, it is indeed a bug that should be fixed!
- Jonas
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