Trouble with LILO on install

Holger Levsen fai at layer-acht.org
Thu Jul 24 08:36:20 CEST 2003


Hi,

> > Yes, I'm using the FAI templates. The lilo questions appear when FAI is
> > saying "Setting up kernel-image-2.4.21dol4 (1) ...", which is a custom
> > kernel build with make-kpkg.
> That's your problem then - kernel packages built with make-kpkg require
> interaction when setting up lilo.  I ended up building custom kernels
> like any other package with a customised debian/rules built from dh_make
> and then building the package with dpkg-buildpackage.
>
> I'm not sure if FAI can compensate for this, I'd personally file a bug
> against make-kpkg and ask them to use debconf.

in a bash-script:

yes 'n' | dpkg --root=$target -i $target/path/to/custom_kernel_i386.deb

or 

yes 'n' | $ROOTCMD apt-get install custom_kernel_i386.deb


and, by the way, it's wishlist-bug already: 
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=115884

regards,
	Holger




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