It is not very likely that this is an initrd-tools problem. We have several installation reports for SunBlade 100 that mention that the USB keyboard does not work correctly after booting debian-installer. So it is much more likely that there is a more general problem with kernel support for USB keyboards on these machines. We really need someone who has a machine like that to trace this... Cheers, FJP
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