Bug#271568: kernel-image-2.4.27-1-sparc64: initrd.img-2.4.27-1-sparc64 zero length

[Ceri Mitchell <ceri@caelum.co.uk>]

Package: kernel-image-2.4.27-1-sparc64
Version: 2.4.27-1
Severity: important

After apt update from Kernel 2.4.26 to 2.4.27
Added initrd=/initrd.img to silo.conf which is a link to
/boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-1-sparc64  but the file is is zero length and
causes SILO to exit with a "Trap 5" error.

I tried to use mkinitrd to create the file, but this also produced a
zero length initrd file. So this may be a clue.

Kernel 2.6.8 seems to have the same problem.

Many thanks

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: sparc (sparc64)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26-sparc64
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages kernel-image-2.4.27-1-sparc64 depends on:
ii  initrd-tools                  0.1.74     tools to create initrd image for p

-- no debconf information