Bug#479101: linux-image-2.6.25-1-amd64: more info on initramfs failure

[maximilian attems <max@stro.at>]

On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 12:45:09PM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote:
> Package: linux-image-2.6.25-1-amd64
> Version: 2.6.25-1
> Followup-For: Bug #479101
> 
> 
> The issue is this:
> 
>    checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (bad gzip magic numbers); looks like an initrd
> 
> however, the initrd image certainly *is* an initramfs:
> 
>    cerebro /boot# zcat initrd.img-2.6.25-1-amd64|cpio -t|head
>    .
>    bin
>    bin/cat
>    ...
> 
> So this seems to be a bug somewhere in the kernel initramfs detection code.
> 
> (google finds a lot of similar cases for 2.6.25)
> 

are you using lilo?

can you reproduce with grub?

thanks for the info!

-- 
maks