Package: live-initramfs Followup-For: Bug #440238
This is not wishlist, this is a bug. The mountrroot hides error messages from critical part of boot process that is most likely to fail. The patch to fix this is trivial: --- usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/live~ 2007-11-18 17:21:41.000000000 +0100 +++ usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/live 2007-12-19 12:22:57.000000000 +0100 @@ -1220,6 +1220,8 @@ exec 7>&2 exec > live.log exec 2>&1 + tail -f live.log >&7 & + tailpid=$! Arguments @@ -1297,5 +1299,6 @@ exec 1>&6 6>&- exec 2>&7 7>&- + kill $tailpid cp live.log "${rootmnt}/var/log/" } -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.23.3-src (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash _______________________________________________ debian-live-devel mailing list debian-live-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel