Bug#395069: initramfs-tools: post-installation fails when lilo and grub are both around and grub is configured as bootloader

[maximilian attems <maks@sternwelten.at>]

On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, marcopar wrote:

> Package: initramfs-tools
> Followup-For: Bug #395069
> 
> 
> update-initramfs exits with code 1 during the update (-u) switch.
> this causes failures installing every package that runs it in its
> scripts (udev, linux-image-*, initramfs-tools...).
> 
> the error code is returned while executing run_bootloader().
> 
> my configuration has lilo and grub installed. so configuration files for
> both bootloaders are in place. the system was installed with lilo and
> then i switched to grub.
> 
> i've not deeply debbugged the script but it seems that the error is
> caused wither by run_lilo or mbr_check. i did not saw any message from
> lilo so probably the incriminated function is the latter.
> 
> after saying all these things the workaround is to remove lilo.

the fix is in 0.85 in unstable, if you still want to have both around.

regards

-- 
maks