Bug#384967: initramfs-tools fails to upgrade if lilo is not installed

[maximilian attems <maks@sternwelten.at>]

tags 384967 moreinfo
thanks

On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 10:29:58AM +0100, Anthony Callegaro wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I've seen lots of discussion already on the initramfs/lilo dependency when 
> people are using grub, but I didn't see any report of my issue. 
> 
> I'm using grub only (lilo is not installed) on my machine and during the last 
> 2 upgrades of initramfs-tools I received the following error message :
> 
> update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-2-k7
> /usr/sbin/update-initramfs: line 88: lilo: command not found
> 
> I resolved the issue with a simple 
> touch /usr/sbin/lilo
> chmod +x /usr/sbin/lilo
> 
> But I wondered what would have happened if lilo WAS installed. As I'm using grub
> it would certainly have broken my boot...

please send the output of
cat /etc/kernel-img.conf
 
> If I remember correctly the issue started with 0.75 (at least I remember only 
> having to use the above workaround only twice).
> 
> Let me know if you need more info, I'll be glad to help.
> Cheers
> Anthony

if aboves doesn't look like i suppose, i may need more info.
thanks for your report.

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maks