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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