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Subject: Re: Install on single partition and without a bootloader
From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf-mardorf@riseup.net>
To: ~alpine/users@lists.alpinelinux.org
Date: Sun, 28 May 2023 20:09:26 +0200
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Hi,

by accident I first run

   =E2=80=A2 root@archlinux /home/rocketmouse=20
   # apk add --root /mnt/m1.alpine/ fix linux-lts=20
   fetch http://mirror.bahnhof.net/pub/alpinelinux/v3.18/main/x86_64/APKIND=
EX.tar.gz
   fetch http://mirror.bahnhof.net/pub/alpinelinux/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDE=
X.tar.gz
   ERROR: unable to select packages:
     fix (no such package):
       required by: world[fix]

then I run

   =E2=80=A2 root@archlinux /home/rocketmouse=20
   # apk fix --root /mnt/m1.alpine/ linux-lts=20
   (1/1) [APK unavailable, skipped] Reinstalling linux-lts (6.1.30-r0)
   OK: 452 MiB in 54 packages

If I try to boot Alpine Linux now nothing does happen at all. Neither a
grub error message, nor any startup message is shown.

   =E2=80=A2 root@archlinux /home/rocketmouse=20
   # /bin/ls -l /mnt/m1.alpine/etc/mkinitfs/mkinitfs.conf /mnt/m1.alpine/bo=
ot/initramfs-lts=20
   -rw------- 1 root root 16946027 May 28 11:40 /mnt/m1.alpine/boot/initram=
fs-lts
   -rw-r--r-- 1 root root       50 May 28 11:16 /mnt/m1.alpine/etc/mkinitfs=
/mkinitfs.conf

The timestamp shows that apk fix didn't rebuild initramfs, the timestamp
is from the build of initramfs-lts that failed, when I run
/sbin/mkinitfs in the chroot and depmod wasn't found.

   =E2=80=A2 root@archlinux /home/rocketmouse=20
   # mv -i /mnt/m1.alpine/boot/initramfs-lts /mnt/m1.alpine/boot/broken_ini=
tramfs-lts
   =E2=80=A2 root@archlinux /home/rocketmouse=20
   # /bin/ls -l /mnt/m1.alpine/boot/*nitramfs-lts=20
   -rw------- 1 root root 16946027 May 28 11:40 /mnt/m1.alpine/boot/broken_=
initramfs-lts
   =E2=80=A2 root@archlinux /home/rocketmouse=20
   # apk fix --root /mnt/m1.alpine/ linux-lts=20
   (1/1) [APK unavailable, skipped] Reinstalling linux-lts (6.1.30-r0)
   OK: 452 MiB in 54 packages
   =E2=80=A2 root@archlinux /home/rocketmouse=20
   # /bin/ls -l /mnt/m1.alpine/boot/*nitramfs-lts=20
   -rw------- 1 root root 16946027 May 28 11:40 /mnt/m1.alpine/boot/broken_=
initramfs-lts

Have I damaged something by accidentally running

   apk add --root /mnt/m1.alpine/ fix linux-lts

? And/or is "APK unavailable" the culprit? Or else?

FWIW

   =E2=80=A2 root@archlinux /home/rocketmouse=20
   # pacman -Qi apk-tools | head
   Name            : apk-tools
   Version         : 2.12.11-1
   Description     : Alpine Package Keeper - package manager for alpine
   Architecture    : x86_64
   URL             : https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/apk-tools
   Licenses        : GPL2
   Groups          : None
   Provides        : None
   Depends On      : zlib  openssl
   Optional Deps   : None

Regards,
Ralf