severity 354334 normal tags 354334 +unreproducible stop your report didn't contain enough information of how initramfs-tools could have failed. anyway latest initramfs-tools in unstable now handles lilo and should work much better if timeouts were the trouble. so please retest with latest initramfs-tools 0.56 and udev 0.087-2 from unstable, report back or may have soon to close your report. -- maks