Casper or live-initramfs seem to fail both in etch and testing

[Antonio.Amorim at sim.fc.ul.pt (Antonio Amorim)]

Hi,

Since some days (week?) ago the live-debian images that I am building 
have started to fail when I test them ( at least with qemu). The image 
release is set to Lenny.
The problem appeared in a complex setup but I was able to see that tit 
was reproduced if the image was build in a sid machine with the last 
live-helper version from subversion: 1.0~a14-1:

make-live -p minimal

An error appears while trying to mount the root file system and returns:
Busybox v1.1.3 ...
/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
(initramfs)
if the casper package is used this is related to casper trying to run:
/scripts/casper-premount that does not exist.

The problem also appears if one uses the live-initramfs from the live 
Etch backports repository.

Finally I have checked by downloading the
http://live.debian.net/weekly-builds/20070528/i386/

debian-live-lenny-i386-standard.iso 
<http://live.debian.net/weekly-builds/20070528/i386/debian-live-lenny-i386-standard.iso>

that the same problem also appeared on the debian-live server automatic 
builds.

Could this be a problem of qemu? It does not look that way but
since I have not seen this problem reported before I am wondering.

Since the sid modules are still missing we can not test with sid.

Thank you in advance for your help,
Antonio Amorim

PS: Please let me know of any test that you could consider relevant and 
I could build, test and make the images available if it is consedered 
usefull.