Bug#431285: linux-image-2.6.18-4-686: displays unnecessairy FUD during install
On Sunday 01 July 2007, maximilian attems wrote:
> sure you reported the bug and didn't yet paste the relevant lines
> that you found to be screaming.
> otherwise as maintainer you need to pass me a crystal ball :)
Oops, sorry, crystal balls are out of stock.
Its the third message found in here:
/var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.18-4-686.templates
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
You are attempting to install an initrd kernel image (version 2.6.18-4-686)
This will not work unless you have configured your boot loader to use
initrd. (An initrd image is a kernel image that expects to use an INITial
Ram Disk to mount a minimal root file system into RAM and use that for
booting).
.
As a reminder, in order to configure LILO, you need to add an
'initrd=/initrd.img' to the image=/vmlinuz stanza of your /etc/lilo.conf
.
I repeat, You need to configure your boot loader -- please read your
bootloader documentation for details on how to add initrd images.
.
If you have already done so, and you wish to get rid of this message,
please put
"do_initrd = Yes"
in /etc/kernel-img.conf. Note that this is optional, but if you do not,
you will continue to see this message whenever you install a kernel
image using initrd.
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I don't know about LILO, but for Grub I do not need to configure anything
in my boot loader.
ernest@home:~/freenet$ cat /etc/kernel-img.conf
# Kernel Image management overrides
# See kernel-img.conf(5) for details
do_symlinks = Yes
ernest@home:~/freenet$ dpkg -l lilo grub
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-====================-====================-========================================================
ii grub 0.97-27 GRand Unified Bootloader
pn lilo <none> (no description available)
ernest@home:~/freenet$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
/dev/hda2 / ext2 errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda1 none swap sw 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /floppy auto user,noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
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> regards
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