Package: initrd-tools Version: 0.1.76 Severity: important Tags: d-i
Please set the mkinitrd.conf MODULES value to dep, at least on powerpc. ON powerpc, we have at least three subarches (pegasos 1, prep and some oldworlds) which have troubles with either bigger initrd images (bigger than 1.5MB compressed on pegasos 1), or bigger kernel+initrd images (bigger than 4MB for both on prep and/or some oldworlds). A initrd created with MODULES=most on a prep box seems to yield a 5MB (compressed) initrd, while setting it to MODULES=dep results in a 1.5MB (compressed) initrd, which should be mostly ok on all those subarches. The bug is marked severity important, but i feel that it should probably be limit on RC-severity, since it results in a unbootable machine post d-i install. Would be nice if all those useless ide drivers and filesystems could be removed from the initrd, in favor of keeping only the filesystem and disk driver modules on which root resides. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-powerpc Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages initrd-tools depends on: ii coreutils [fileutils] 5.2.1-2 The GNU core utilities ii cpio 2.5-1.1 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar pn cramfsprogs Not found. pn dash | ash Not found. ii fileutils 5.2.1-2 The GNU file management utilities ii module-init-tools 3.1-rel-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo ii modutils 2.4.26-1.1 Linux module utilities ii util-linux 2.12j-3 Miscellaneous system utilities -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
