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

[maximilian attems]

On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 02:26:00PM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> I encountered a problem recently on my alpha machine 
> running Debian testing.
> 
> linux-image-2.6.22-3-alpha-generic was failed to boot
> if I used initramfs-tools to generate initrd.img but
> it booted successfully with initrd.img generated by yaird.

please report the boot failure against initramfs-tools.
I'd need to know more like the error message you saw
and the content of the working initramfs versus non working.
 
> Unfortunately linux-image-2.6.24-1-alpha-generic failed
> to boot with both initramfs-tools and yaird.

yep the error your posted looks like a kernel bug.
 
> Anyway I believe yaird is necessary for, at least, alpha
> in lenny.  I have experienced boot failure many times
> with alpha and it is very good to have two options to
> generate initrd.img.

it seems to make people to lazy to report.
2.6.22 is 1/2 a year ago.