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

[Anthony Callegaro <callytic@free.fr>]

Hi Maximilan !

>From your suggestions I manage to find a solution to my issue, sorry
about the unnecessary noise :o(

For the record here is my kernel-img.conf : 
$ cat /etc/kernel-img.conf
do_symlinks = yes
relative_links = yes
do_bootloader = yes
do_bootfloppy = no
do_initrd = yes
link_in_boot = no

But I indeed had a lilo.conf remaining of a previous configuration,
removing it did the trick... sorry to have bother you with something as
simple :o(

Anyway thanks a million for your answer
Cheers
Anthony

Le lundi 28 août 2006 à 12:07 +0200, maximilian attems a écrit :
> 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.
> 
> --
> maks
>