Bug#337176: initramfs-tools: initrd unusable on amd64

[Maximilian Attems <maks@sternwelten.at>]

tags 337176 -moreinfo
retitle 337176 troubles due to 32-bit chroot on amd64
severity 337176 important
severity 337607 normal
retitle 337607  Boot scripts tries to use not included ?mdrun?
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On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 01:24:41PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
 
> I've got good news and bad news :-)

the good news goes to the closed bug report, as both submitter
reported that the old problem (no devices for lvm and raid) was solved.

the third bug report is about running binaries that are not on the
initramfs (generating harmless errors). 
i know that it is not the case anymore for evms, need 
to look into the md case, so keeping around too. ;)
 
> It basically works.  However, there was one problem.  I have a 32-bit
> Debian chroot on this amd64 machine, and its library directories are in
> /etc/ld.so.conf.  Which basically works.  But, due to a quirk in
> ldconfig and some Debian-specific rules on symlinks out of /usr, I've
> got this:

ok cool setup, thanks for the test report,
will look into this next week.
retitled your bug report accordingly, higher severity as many amd64
setups may use an 32bit chroot.

regards

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maks