Re: Problem with initramfs-tools on P1-133MHz machine

[Patrick Vervoorn <patrick.vervoorn@perihelion.demon.nl>]

On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, maximilian attems wrote:

> well support questions are fine on this mailinglist,
> bugreports should go with reportbug.
> in anyway that needs to be looked at.

I'll Cc: this response then to the mailing-list again (though I'm not 
subscribed to it). If that's not the intention, my apologies, and I'll 
stop doing that.

> > Setting up initramfs-tools (0.85f) ...
> > /usr/sbin/update-initramfs: line 220:  7427 Broken pipe
> > sha1sum "${initramfs}"
> >       7428 Illegal instruction     | diff "${STATEDIR}/${version}" -
> > > /dev/null 2>&1
> > /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-4-486 has been altered. Cannot update.
> >
> > It seems one of the tools used by initramfs-tools (perhaps sha1sum?) is
> > using an instruction not supported by the Pentium-1?
>
> can you post the output of
> sha1sum /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-4-486

frodo:~# sha1sum /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-4-486
411a83667038d86628f09328236f74b959d784d6  /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-4-486

So sha1sum seems to work?

> > What should I do? Report to the right maintainer/team? Uninstall
> > initramfs-tools and use an other 'ramdisk-fs' tool?
>
> afaik i-t works across any debian archs,
> so thanks for bringing up that trouble.

Regards,

Patrick.