Bug#401764: initramfs-tools: Produces broken (unbootable) initrd

[maximilian attems <maks@sternwelten.at>]

On Tue, 05 Dec 2006, George-Cristian Bîrzan wrote:

> Not much more to say. Any kernel image I build an initrd for now breaks in
> the same way. Since I'm lazy and didn't feel like transcripting everything
> it outputs, I took pictures of the screen when it broke:
> http://hephaestus.constanta.rdsnet.ro/~gcbirzan/initramfs/
> 
> What's funny is this (this is a broken initrd):

can we have an update on that?
 
> gcbirzan@meili:~/initramfs$ gunzip -dc < /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-3-686 |
> cpio -i
> 22694 blocks
> gcbirzan@meili:~/initramfs$ bin/fstype < /dev/sda5
> FSTYPE=reiserfs
> FSSIZE=71206174720
> gcbirzan@meili:~/initramfs$ find -name fstype
> ./bin/fstype
> gcbirzan@meili:~/initramfs$ strings  bin/fstype | grep Usage
> Usage: %s [file]
> 
> I can't get it to spit that out, though. :-)
> 
> I'm rather stumped at the moment, as initramfs just kind of worked till now,
> not sure how to debug it...

is this still the case?
if yes i'd need more info.


best regards

-- 
maks