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

[Marc Lehmann <debian-reportbug@plan9.de>]

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)

-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.25-1-amd64 depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]        1.5.11etch1 Debian configuration management sy
ii  initramfs-tools [linux-initr 0.92a       tools for generating an initramfs
ii  module-init-tools            3.3-pre4-2  tools for managing Linux kernel mo

linux-image-2.6.25-1-amd64 recommends no packages.

-- debconf information excluded