Corrupt initramfs-tools and unworking yaird?

["Émeric Maschino" <emeric.maschino@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I'm running up-to-date Debian Etch on my hp workstation zx6000 and mkinitramfs generates unbootable initrd images (errors regarding various links during the image building process, /dev hierarchy completely depopulated and kernel panic at boot time). So the symptoms are different than those reported in a precedent post (
http://lists.debian.org/debian-ia64/2006/03/msg00001.html). However at this time, it was possible to build working initrd images using yaird. But now, when invoking yaird, I'm getting the following error:

yaird error: unexpected ldd output for /bin/dash: BASH=/bin/bash (fatal)

Is there a way to solve this? What's the proper way to build working initrd images?

Thanks,

     Émeric