Bug#673194: closed by maximilian attems <maks@stro.at> (Re: Bug#673194: initramfs-tools: mkinitramfs silently creates non-bootable initramfs when run as non-root user)

[Touko Korpela <touko.korpela@iki.fi>]

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 02:30:24PM +0000, maximilian attems wrote:
> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 03:55:56PM +0300, Markus Vuorio wrote:
> > >
> > > no error provided, command is meant to be also run as normal user
> > > thus assertion by report is invalid, closing.
> > >
> > 
> > The resulting initramfs doesn't work, kernel can't find init there.
> 
> have you tried to compare the content of both initramfs?

I think closing of this bug was done too fast.
Markus, you can compare initramfs contents using "lsinitramfs -l" command.