On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:30:05 -0400 (EDT), Peter E. wrote: > > Good of you to give the explanation and instructions > in msg02584.html. My only remaining concern is that, > with this being unfamiliar territory with several > parameters to be adjusted, there appears to be a > non-trivial risk of a small error leaving the system > unbootable again. >
Here is a link to an online version of the man page for kernel-img.conf that appears to be close to the available options supported by the maintainer scripts for *official stock Debian kernel image packages* under Squeeze/Sid. Note that many of these options no longer work for *kernel image packages created by make-kpkg* under Squeeze/Sid. I cannot guarantee its accuracy. For example, I don't know if "do_bootfloppy = yes" still works. I haven't tried it. http://www.wlug.org.nz/kernel-img.conf%285%29 To create an environment that works for both kinds of kernel image packages, I recommend that you customize /etc/kernel-img.conf as outlined in the other thread *and* create the hook script environment outlined in the web page mentioned in the other thread. The hook scripts seem to be necessary at the moment in order for lilo to get run during the installation of a new kernel image package. Whether that is a bug (unintended) or a feature (intended) I am not sure. But if you customize /etc/kernel-img.conf as recommended *and* set up the hook scripts as recommended, all your bases will be covered. As I see it, this whole problem started when the Debian kernel team decided to stop using kernel-package to create official Debian stock kernel images and started using other tools, which were initially based on kernel-package scripts, of course. Over time, they have slowly drifted apart, yet both groups of maintainer scripts still use /etc/kernel-img.conf as a configuration file. In other words, this is not a lilo-specific problem: this is a general kernel image maintainer script problem. To further muddy the waters, kernel upstream now offers a "make deb-pkg" option to create a Debian package directly from the kernel source package, without going through any Debian-specific tools. I have never used it. I have no idea if it uses /etc/kernel-img.conf, or if so, what options it supports. What a mess we have here! -- .''`. Stephen Powell <zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/518040484.375471270061331174.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com
