update-initramfs -k $(uname -a) -t -u
You must specify at least one of -c, -u, or -d.
[..]

wh...

this was proposed in patch on #416063 by
Maik Zumstrull <[email protected]>
but don't hardc...

"Ah. there were symlinks in / - tho they were never ever used on this
system.

Seems pretty bro...

only comes into play if lilo is installed too and usage is not
configured by do_bootloader in /e...

rework it's logic, instead of 2 nested top ifs use one if
with 2 "&&" connected checks. gets us ...

"with kernel mode setting, i'd imagine that including
framebuffer drivers becomes even more imp...

First see if there is a $(uname -r) versioned firmware around
and if there is add it first.

sho...

Otherwise it likes to warn for e100 even if e1000e is in use:
grep e100 /proc/modules
e1000e 11...

I needed to run update-initramfs w/ MODULES=dep (for some 15M BIOS size
limitation w/ lilo on an...

new naming scheme for stable releases.
no longer adding a letter, but a maintenance number.

gets rid of lintian warning:
package-uses-deprecated-debhelper-compat-version 4

DO NOT USE -Qb for framebuffer.

Blank ttys when using vesafb (vga=xxx) LP: #129910

[ s/-Q/-q/ ...

update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-versatile
mkinitramfs: missing mmcblk roo...

i've made an install of new kernel on Intrepid: 2.6.27-8-generic (32 bits)
and kernel.log have a...

[ first test existence before link and don't use bashism -maks ]
Ubuntu merge 0.92bubuntu24

seems confusing for users..

woow that went unnoticed for some years now.
people seem really to use update-initramfs(8).

try to add one or the other.

initrd-tools was last shipped in etch and was sarge default.
we no longer need to care about it....

mkinitramfs-kpkg outputs the following warning:

Depreciation WARNING: use update-initramfs(8)
...

while at it cleanup the variable name that came due to legacy
naming nfsopts in a very early ini...

release string from "Fischia il vento" :)

Ferenc seems to be using the xvda1=img1,xvda2=img2 scheme of Xen disks
(this is what xentools ge...

do the same dance here, same code, just slightly renamed variables.

As there is no /dev/disk/by-label//, we need to follow udev
on escape the '/' character with \...

Documentation currently lacked a list of exported variables
for boot or hook scripts.

(closes: ...

the supported-host long call feature was already dropped
before lenny, thus just kick it.

no ot...

..via /etc/kernel

Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <[email protected]>

(closes: #504551)

[ fix...

The attached patch is needed for booting with root=mtd0.
Basically, the init scripts assume the ...

always remove the largest possible suffix pattern on the block device.

(closes: #513958)

Repor...

Since "exit 2" has a special meaning, we must "exit 1" when the
find/cpio/gzip pipe fails, other...

since some keyboards will not be usable at the initramfs/busybox
prompt without them.

[ Ubuntu ...

(closes: #514997)

Reported-by: Michael Prokop <[email protected]>

trivial fix on top of previous change.
afais cpio doesn't really give sensible return errors,
so...

The final stage of mkinitramfs that builds the image does not verify the
exit codes of find or c...

uncovered due to tests with harden cpio failures.
bug got introduced postlenny in
d2791a8fa458d4...

not needed anymore..

no need to support callers that were unofficial and never released
as such in Lenny.

no need to deprecate it in initramfs-tools.
Lenny ships due to userspace with it and Juju firewi...

update-initramfs is the desired caller.

since Lenny lvm2 ships it's own hooks scripts, no need to dup.

clears debhelper-but-no-misc-depends lintian warning.

don't know if we really need it, but bett...

makes it respect "do_bootloader = no" if both lilo and grub2 are
installed.

simplify grub check...

we have boot scripts that search for root if none is passed.
usage by grml.org and debian-live.
...

in 0.92m, the timeout for ipconfig in scripts/functions was set to 60
seconds. This broke our is...

in 0.92m, the timeout for ipconfig in scripts/functions was set to 60
seconds. This broke our is...

The cmdline parameter `break=init' failed to work. It looks like the variable
`break' is unset b...

should be just a bit faster and fixes relative path for -d option.
(closes: 472409)

with bad luck that might still be on hda1,
but then you get a warning about missing root boot pa...

adds FILES section.

and no we can't write into /var/log itself.
(closes: #488804)

thanks to [email protected] for pointing out the missed field.

d-i fix, thus high urgency.

-d was missing in synopsis.
-c or -d or -u are not optional.

i've set up an encrypted loop-AES device as the root partition (boot
paramter dev=/dev/loopX) an...

NFSOPTS is no longer sourced in initramfs.conf,
so it should only be documented at the place of ...

d-i uses to pass it with the value 1

Reported-by: Frans Pop <[email protected]>

The root fs is located on LVM and is described in
/etc/fstab with LABEL= notation, which leads
t...

no need to check if the string of the corresponding variable exists,
just unset all of them, but...

Fix buglet in parse_numeric where *:* would match mtd:root. We only
want to match numbers. Thi...

udev isn't started at this point and therefore can't create framebuffer
devices. This causes usp...

rather than /tmp/initramfs.debug, so that it can be retrieved after boot.

Uvesafb framebuffer driver needs v86d userspace program
but when fb driver is modprobed at init-...

harmless as the postrm is small, but better be clean.

closes: #503216

same fix as cciss, see #507619

A coworker reported a lenny install failure today. Turns out he had
asked the installer to run m...

thanks martin f krafft <[email protected]>

closes: #502058

rather than waiting forever (LP: #182940).

have to clean up goof up from 0.92k too..

This reverts commit c5a45496b9c72e41333e213979d43fbcff34da9f.

hinders removal of other package ...

it generates linux images that look into this directories
for maintainer script action.

make su...

Now that d-i won't create /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/driver-policy
in all cases, I think refere...

glantank-update-kernel has been merged into flash-kernel and
glantank-update-kernel will now cal...

Please mention in initramfs.conf that the values specified there can
be overriden via /etc/mkini...

found under drivers/s390/block instead drivers/block location.
"allows to access disks under VM...

lives under drivers/s390/scsi and not drivers/scsi

(closes: #498698)