installkernel directory in arch/x86/bootinstall.sh needs update

[Robert Bast]

This is for package linux-source-5.15.0. I could not select that in the report-a-bug web interface thus selected 'linux'.

During a manual kernel compile's install phase
(make install) the install.sh script told me that it 'Cannot find LILO'.

After some research it turns out that install.sh cannot find the installkernel program (supplied by debianutils).

This is because installkernel is installed to /usr/sbin but the script looks in /sbin/ and no symbolic link exists in /sbin that points to /usr/sbin/installkernel.

After creating the symlink to /usr/sbin/installkernel in /sbin, make install works as expected and installs the kernel to /boot after which update-initramfs / update-grub gets called.

It'd be mighty nice if this gets fixed (i.e. auto symlink creation or adding /usr/sbin to search locations in install.sh)

Thank you for your time and attention.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: linux-source-5.15.0 5.15.0-41.44
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-41.44-lowlatency 5.15.39
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-41-lowlatency x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.1
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: sam 6496 F.... pulseaudio
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: LXQt
Date: Mon Jul 18 16:59:40 2022
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=311aea48-e089-4fed-a4ef-21f9212f057a
MachineType: Acer AOD255
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcFB: 0 i915drmfb
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-5.15.0-41-lowlatency root=UUID=7ed89f1f-cf18-49f8-a413-8bd3874b2f2a ro quiet resume=UUID=311aea48-e089-4fed-a4ef-21f9212f057a
RelatedPackageVersions:
 linux-restricted-modules-5.15.0-41-lowlatency N/A
 linux-backports-modules-5.15.0-41-lowlatency N/A
 linux-firmware 20220329.git681281e4-0ubuntu3.2
SourcePackage: linux
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dmi.bios.date: 04/22/2011
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