[Bug 592927] [NEW] make-kpkg does not create an initrd image

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When using make-kpkg to build the Ubuntu-distributed kernel sources, no
initrd.img is created which causes the computer to kernel panic on boot
being unable to mount the root filesystem. Running mkinitramfs is not
optimal as make-kpkg should do this, and if I manually create an initrd,
any further update-grub action will cause my initrd line to disappear.

Here's the sequence of commands I have used:

sudo -i
cd /usr/src
tar xvjf linux-source-2.6.35.tar.bz2
cd linux-source-2.6.35
make menuconfig
< during this, the only thing I changed was the arch, from generic x86-64 to Core 2 >
make-kpkg --append-to-version=-delan --jobs 16 --initrd kernel_image kernel_headers modules
dpkg -i ../*.deb

For creating the initrd image:

mkinitramfs -o /boot/grub/initrd.img-2.6.35-rc1-delan

** Affects: kernel-package (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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make-kpkg does not create an initrd image
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/592927
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