Bug#534636: linux-image-2.6-686: Diskless server fails to boot off a cramfs ramdisk

[Igor Filippov <dr.filippov@gmail.com>]

Package: linux-image-2.6-686
Version: 2.6.26+17+lenny1
Severity: normal

Upgrading the diskless servers that were originally booting off cramfs ramdisks
to lenny makes these servers unbootable: the cramfs is no longer compiled 
into the kernel, but it is rather built as a loadable kernel module (CONFIG_CRAMFS=m). 
To load this module, the initrd must be loaded first, but that requires the cramfs module. 
Catch 22.

Is there any particular reason not to compile the cramfs into the kernel as it was 
done in all the previous releases?



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages linux-image-2.6-686 depends on:
ii  linux-image-2.6.26-2-686      2.6.26-15  Linux 2.6.26 image on PPro/Celeron

linux-image-2.6-686 recommends no packages.

linux-image-2.6-686 suggests no packages.

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