Bug#343048: linux-image-2.6.14-2-686: modules ide-generic and ide-disk not loading

[Henrik Enberg <enberg@gmail.com>]

> Just to answer Sumit's question: if you install initramfs-tools (instead of 
> yaird) and recreate the initial ram disk (with a "dpkg-reconfigure 
> linux-image-2.6.14-2-686" for example) you'll have a busybox executable in 
> the image (which includes modprobe). Much more usefull than what yaird 
> provides. I'm not up to speed on the differences between the two initrd 
> tools, this is just what I got out-of-the-box with apt-get install.

And if you don't have a bootable kernel on the system?  Are you SOL? 

I used to have initramfs-tools on my box, anyone knows how I ended 
up with this newfangled yaird?