make-kpkg man page should display --initrd in usage example
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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kernel-package (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: kernel-package
The make-kpkg manpage says as usage example:
make-kpkg --rootcmd fakeroot kernel_image
but nowadays the kernels use initrd, and kernels compiled this way will not able to boot, with message:
VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown block(0, 0)
Please modify the manpage to contain
make-kpkg --rootcmd fakeroot --initrd kernel_image
(Maybe a warning saying that vanilla kernels may not boot, and use the linux-source-* package would also help.)
This way we could spare some hours of kernel compiling for such clueless jerks like me.
Thanks.
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04
$ dpkg -l kernel-package
Desired=
| Status=
|/ Err?=(none)
||/ Name Version Description
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ii kernel-package 11.001 A utility for building Linux kernel related Debian package