Bug#444364: please stop rewriting all the initrds
dean gaudet
dean at arctic.org
Fri Sep 28 01:30:31 UTC 2007
Package: mdadm
Version: 2.6.2-2
it is EXEPTIONALLY DANGEROUS to replace EVERY SINGLE initrd when mdadm is
installed/upgraded.
you pretty much guarantee that any problem will produce an unbootable
system -- especially if root is on md.
as has just occured to me.
in the past in this situation i could easily go back to an old kernel
version which could still boot my system fine *because its initrd hadn't
been broken as well*.
but no this time i'll have to resort to a recovery CD.
-dean
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