Bug#361270: Upgrade of initramfs-tools made kernel unbootable with lilo

[maximilian attems <maks@sternwelten.at>]

severity 361270 important
tags 361270 moreinfo
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On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 04:43:26PM +0100, David Jarvie wrote:
> 
> Upgrading initramfs-tools yesterday caused the current kernel 2.6.15-1
> to become unbootable, apparently because the upgrade process regenerated
> initrd.img-2.6.15-1-k7. The upgrade process should have warned me to
> rerun lilo.

update-initramfs runs lilo, have you also grub around,
please post output of:
dpkg -l grub
ls -l /sbin/grub /boot/grub/menu.lst

 
> Note that I normally use kernel 2.6.15-1-k7, rather than 2.6.12 listed below, but
> due to 2.6.15 being unbootable I had to boot into 2.6.12.

please post the error message you see at your 2.6.15 boot?

regards

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maks