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

[maximilian attems <maks@sternwelten.at>]

On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 08:51:12PM +0100, David Jarvie wrote:
> On Friday 07 April 2006 16:41, maximilian attems wrote:
> > update-initramfs runs lilo, have you also grub around,
> 
> I don't use grub, but as you will see below, it is installed. (I have had to 
> use it in the past for system recovery when my commercial boot manager 
> corrupted the MBR.)

if grub is around lilo isn't run.
if you really want lilo remove grub from your system and
update-initramfs will call lilo.
 
> > dpkg -l grub
> 
> ||/ Name                  Version               Description
> +++-=====================-=====================-==========================================================
> ii  grub                  0.97-5                GRand Unified Bootloader
> 
> > ls -l /sbin/grub /boot/grub/menu.lst
> 
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   4014 Feb 15 06:50 /boot/grub/menu.lst
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 137644 Feb 14 21:23 /sbin/grub

ok.
 
> > please post the error message you see at your 2.6.15 boot?
> 
> I don't remember what it said beyond being a "kernel panic" - it was early in 
> the boot sequence, at the place where it usually fails if lilo hasn't been 
> run when it should have been. I can't find messages from that boot attempt in 
> any of the log files in /var/log, and I have since run lilo, so I won't be 
> able to replicate it.

doesn't matter at that stage, will be the same then #356850.

i'll document the fact that if you use lilo you shouldn't have grub
around in README.Debian.

regards

--
maks