On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 21:57 +0100, Frans Pop wrote:

> Because the old modprobe does not understand the new relative (or rather 
> rootless) paths, aggravated by the fact that initramfs-tools does not 
> error out or display errors from modprobe (probably for good historic 
> reasons), I suddenly had an initramfs that contained no modules and thus 
> a system that failed to reboot with the new kernel.

Well, that lack of understanding the difference between relative/explict
paths was fixed but of course we can't go back in time and fix what's
already out there and in use. Yes, it was a bad idea of mine (perhaps)
to change the existing file format and I've learned something, but it
should only have affected for example that 3.4 release you're using.

Jon.





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