Re: initrd and lilo.conf

[Mark Roach <mrroach@okmaybe.com>]

On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 13:32, Brian Carver wrote:
> New problem:
> 
> When I proceeded with the
> 
> dpkg -i kernel-image-2.4.18-custom.1.0_i386.deb 
> 
> after deciding that initrd.img was ok to put in lilo.conf I get an error:
> -----
> Setting up kernel-image-2.4.18 (custom.1.0) ...
> Failed to create initrd image.
> dpkg: error processing kernel-image-2.4.18 (--install):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  kernel-image-2.4.18
> -----
> Any ideas why this is happening?
> 


I imagine this is because you don't have initrd-tools installed. For
some reason the stock kernel images  put this for depends:
Depends: initrd-tools (>= 0.1.40), coreutils | fileutils (>= 4.0),
modutils (>= 2.4.19)

but when you use make-kpkg, it only puts initrd-tools in "suggests"
Suggests: initrd-tools (>= 0.1.1), lilo (>= 19.1), fdutils,
kernel-doc-2.4.18-ml350 | kernel-source-2.4.18-ml350

try installing that package and I think you'll be all set, that should
probably be filed as a bug against kernel-package if it isn't already.

-Mark