initrd-2.6.17 empty after Edgy => Feisty upgrade
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Bug Description
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The problem
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While dist-upgrading edgy => feisty (22. Jan. 07), initrd-2.6.17 (and initrd-2.6.15) was empty (0 B).
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research
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After trying update-initrd and/or update-lilo (I don't know for shure what it was exactly), I was told that the new udev needs kernel version 2.6.19 and higher. That seems to be the reason for the empty initrd.
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what happened
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No initrd means that lilo won't install a new MBR any more - with all the concequences. My solution was to uninstall all old linux-image-* packages. After that, the system booted normally with 2.6.20.
This bug isn't critical, because the old MBR remains intact. But it prevents users from using either the 2.6.20 or any other custom kernel. I recommend at least to show an info box before dist-upgrading.
I'm sorry that I can't post any debug information, because I thought of posting this comment *after* all the steps above. But I hope it will help nevertheless.
| Oleksij Rempel (olerem) wrote | #1 |
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? If so, please reopen the bug. Thanks in advance.