Package: initrd-tools Version: 0.1.79+ mkinitrd fails on machines running kernel 2.4, when vmware is installed. Problem seems to be, that mkinitrd is looking for *.ko files in/lib/modules/{version} to decide whether to use modutils or module-init-tools.
Because vmware installs vmhgfs.ko and vmxnet.ko, mkinitrd will never set $oldstyle to "yes" and thus fail using module-init-tools with 2.4 kernels. I attached a patch. Regards, Dirk
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