(CCing Nobuhiro who contributed the flash-kernel db entry for this device) On Sat, 2015-05-02 at 15:40 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Sun, 2015-04-26 at 00:39 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 23:39:44 +0100 Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> > > wrote: > > > Secondly, if the installation uses LVM, /dev/sda1 is the /boot > > > partition, not the root partition. After fixing the first problem, > > > flash-kernel fails like this: > > > > Actually, this doesn't depend on LVM. The installer always creates a > > separate /boot partition using the ext2 filesystem, and this makes sense > > as u-boot generally doesn't support ext4. So I think that the /boot > > prefix should be removed from the paths for this entry. (And maybe many > > other entries.) > > I think you are likely correct. > > I'm considering declaring that all such db fields are always relative > to /boot and having f-k decide if it needs to prepend /boot or not, > perhaps based on "stat -c %m /boot" or something similar.
Actually, thinking a bit harder... Looking back at your original error: mv: cannot move '/tmp/flash-kernel.3ft8lyny/uImage' to '/tmp/flash-kernel.V2iwAjyz//boot/uImage': No such file or directory I think this is because the db entry includes a Boot-Device. This is supposed to be used for devices where the firmware boots from a partition which is not typically mounted (i.e. a special VFAT partition), hence things in /tmp before copying there. For device which can boot from a sensible filesystem then Boot-Device shouldn't be used and things will end up in /boot (separate or otherwise). Essentially if Boot-Device is set then Boot-*-Path should be relative to that device, if Boot-Device is not set then Boot-*-Path are relative to /. I think /dev/sda1 is your actual /boot and using Boot-Device in that case is wrong. If you remove it do things improve? It seems that the code which handles the Boot-Device case is buggy in the face of a firmware partition which has some hierarchy to it. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1430580916.15640.174.ca...@debian.org