Bug#456256: Tiny initrd.img after security kernel upgrade

[maximilian attems <max@stro.at>]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 06:25:23PM -0500, marcausl@gmail.com wrote:
> Package: initramfs-tools
> Version: 0.85h
> 
> After installing the new version of linux-image-2.6.18-5 from
> security, the system failed to boot.  I believe this is because
> initrd.img is 89 bytes long!
> 
> I tried rebuilding using update-initramfs, and still got an 89 byte
> initrd.img.
> 
> 
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root      89 Dec 13 16:17 initrd.img-2.6.18-5-686

please send output of
ls -l /boot

and the log file of this cmd
sh -x mkinitramfs -o /tmp/test 2> log

thanks

-- 
maks