On Friday 26 May 2006 09:18, Jurij Smakov wrote: > Yes, this has been reported. Something is wrong with initramfs-tools on > sparc32, so use yaird to generate initrds for now. The easiest way is > to install yaird, and then remove initramfs-tools (at least one > initramfs generator must be installed, otherwise kernel packages' deps > are not satisfied). You have to manually add the following line > somewhere before the END GOALS stanza in /etc/yaird/Default.cfg: Switching to yaird is nice as a workaround, but debian-installer will use initramfs by default, so this issue should be resolved. Is there a bug report against initramfs-tools for this? Has anyone tried to trace the issue? initramfs-tools is not all that hard to debug and the maintainer is very responsive. Please somebody work with him to resolve this issue in time for Etch... Cheers, FJP
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