[Yaird-devel] Bug#457177: Bug#457177: Bug#457177: yaird is necessary for alpha yet

[Atsuhito Kohda]

Hi all,

On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 11:45:01 +0200, maximilian attems wrote:

> jonas please start reading what you reassigned.

Yes, it looks rather strange to reassign this bug 
to initramfs-tools.  I want to say yaird is yet good 
alternative for initramfs-tools from my experince.

> i have asked the submitter to submit a proper bugreport to
> initramfs-tools about the 2.6.22 failure. as he is debian
> developer this is not demanding too much.

Umm, not so good Debian developer, but I'll submit a
bug report as maximilian advised, perhaps in the next
week.  The Alpha machine is in a office of a univ. so
I will not test it in this week end.  Sorry for that.

On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 10:46:45 +0200, maximilian attems wrote:

> sure but i was reffering to the initramfs-tools failure,
> who is the default tool and known to generaly work on alpha.

I maintain two alpha machines but they are very sensitive 
and I experienced boot failure many times with them.  
In fact, one fails to boot with kernel greater than 2.6.12 
and so it is running with 2.6.12-1-alpha-generic even now.
The other, which I reffered to in this report, booted
successfully until 2.6.24-1-alpha-generic came and there
was time when it failed to boot with kernels of versions smaller 
than 2.6.8
So I think to have two options for generating initrd.img
is good for users.

Regards,			2008-4-4(Fri)

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 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda AT debian.org>
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