Bug#718761: flash-kernel: 'root=' kernel param ignored when flash-kernel package is installed

2013-11-12 Thread Loïc Minier
On Sun, Aug 04, 2013, Erik Speckman wrote: > If flash-kernel isn't necessary/required on my device, I would expect > it to detect that fact rather than rendering my system in an > unbootable state. It's probably necessary as on other Kirkwood devices as to generate an uImage / uInitrd. > I realiz

Bug#718761: flash-kernel: 'root=' kernel param ignored when flash-kernel package is installed

2013-08-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
Copying Loïc Minier. * Erik Speckman [2013-08-04 23:45]: > 8. Read through mkinitramfs scripts and found that a hook installed by the > flash-kernel package was responsible for the hook script that was setting > "root=/dev/root" in conf/param.con. > If flash-kernel isn't necessary/required on

Bug#718761: flash-kernel: 'root=' kernel param ignored when flash-kernel package is installed

2013-08-04 Thread Erik Speckman
Package: flash-kernel Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** Steps which led to the problem: 1. Installed a new kernel package on a functioning system. 2. Generated a new uImage and uInitrd us