Bug#272079: initrd-tools: Oh why has not this bug been fixed???

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 10:57:24AM +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 12:50:50AM -0700, Jesse Molina wrote:
> > Package: initrd-tools
> > Version: 0.1.84.1
> > Followup-For: Bug #272079
> > 
> > 
> > Here I am, six months later, having the same bug when a fix is clearly
> > available but the maintainers don't want to implement it.
> 
> no qualified for a stable update afais.
>  
> > My situation is completely legit.  I have LVM compiled in but need an
> > initrd for a SATA card, and mkinitrd freaks out because of incorrect
> > sanity checking.
> > 
> > Please, please, someone on the kernel team, apply the patch to fix
> > this thing so that I don't have to patch my mkinitrd every dang time I
> > want to compile a new kernel.
> 
> mkinitrd is no longer supported,
> initramfs-tools is the default successor you'll find it on backports.org
> see also http://wiki.debian.org/InitrdReplacementOptions
>  
> best regards

Notice that Jesse is running a 2.4 kernel, so none of those will do him any
good.

Jesse, i think it is strongly recomended you upgrade toa 2.6 kernel, using one
of those methods.

Friendly,

Sven Luther