Bug#535331: ditto

[Josip Rodin <joy@debbugs.entuzijast.net>]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 01:15:52PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:54:21AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've experienced the same problem. I've got two lenny machines which have
> > GPT paritition tables and Linux root on LVM, and they can't use anything but
> > LILO (there are some novelty hacks for GRUB but I haven't been able to test
> > them yet because this is in production). I have kernel-img.conf set up
> > right, but after upgrading linux-image-2.6.26-2-686, I just get the "not
> > updating symbolic links" messages and no triggers or boot loaders are run.
> > If left unattended, this typically renders these two systems unbootable.
> > 
> > It really looks like a failure to define the $loader variable in the
> > predefined variables section. If I just put 'lilo' in there and re-run
> > dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.26-2-686, the output changes to:
> > 
> > Running depmod.
> > Running mkinitramfs-kpkg.
> > Not updating initrd symbolic links since we are being updated/reinstalled 
> > (2.6.26-19lenny1 was configured last, according to dpkg)
> > Not updating image symbolic links since we are being updated/reinstalled 
> > (2.6.26-19lenny1 was configured last, according to dpkg)
> > You already have a LILO configuration in /etc/lilo.conf
> > Running boot loader as requested
> > Testing lilo.conf ... 
> > Testing successful.
> > Installing the partition boot sector... 
> > Running /sbin/lilo  ... 
> > Installation successful.
> > 
> > This is what would be expected. The run_lilo() function goes out of its way
> > to determine whether the existence of /etc/lilo.conf is sufficient reason to
> > run lilo, so there doesn't appear to be any reason to completely omit it.
> 
> from the affected box:
> cat /etc/kernel-img.conf

I fail to see the benefit, but here goes - on both it's identical:

% cat /etc/kernel-img.conf
# Kernel image management overrides
# See kernel-img.conf(5) for details
do_symlinks = yes
relative_links = yes
do_bootloader = yes
do_bootfloppy = no
do_initrd = yes
link_in_boot = yes

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