Bug#381844: itramfs-tools doesn't produce working ramdisk on amd64 with MODULES=list

[maximilian attems <maks@sternwelten.at>]

On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote:

> > yes please use MODULES=most
> 
> I did it, both initrd didn't work.
> The "most" one was twice as large as the "list" ones (the working and
> the not working one), but this didn't help it to work.
> Summary:
> 
> a) 1 "list" initrd generated before last initramfs-tools that is *working* ~300Kb
> 
> b) 1 "list" initrd generated after last initramfs-tools that is *not working* ~360Kb
> 
> c) 1 "most" initrd generated after last initramfs-tools that is *not working* ~600Kb

i'd like to see that initrd, please put it up somewhere on the web,
or send it me privately.
 
> a) and b) were generated with the *same* /etc/initramfs-tools/modules

hmm you didn't share yet the content of /etc/initramfs-tools/modules ??
 
> BTW I used this syntax:
> mkinitramfs -o /root/initrd.img-2.6.17-1-amd64-k8-smp-most
> -r /dev/md3 2.6.17-1-amd64-k8-smp

the root hardcoding shouldn't be necassary, checkout to pass the
right grub root param.

recommended way is:
update-initramfs -u -k 2.6.17-1-amd64-k8-smp

-- 
maks