Comment 5 for bug 31790

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Chris Moore (dooglus) wrote : Re: kernel panic on boot after installation of initramfs-tools

Both
  /var/lib/dpkg/info/udev.postinst
and
  /var/lib/dpkg/info/initramfs-tools.postinst
run
  update-initramfs -u

So it is the same bug, and I guess the fix would be to get update-initramfs (from the initramfs-tools package) to re-run lilo after updating the file if lilo is being used.