Comment 1 for bug 636895

I ran apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade and it still boots. Although configuring the update-initramfs in the dpkg sense doesn't seem to be working:

Setting up initramfs-tools (0.98.1ubuntu1) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-1005-linaro-omap
Using u-boot partition: /dev/mmcblk0p1
mount: block device /dev/mmcblk0p1 is write-protected, mounting read-only
Creating backups of uImage and uInitrd... cp: cannot create regular file `/tmp/tmp.5pTemEd34J/uImage.bak': Read-only file system
dpkg: error processing initramfs-tools (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 initramfs-tools

so I don't know how serious a test of my system that is.