I tried just removing the LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4 setting from /usr/sbin/mkinitrd, and also from /usr/share/initrd-tools/scripts/e2fsprogs, which also sets it, and that seems to work ok on both 2.4 and 2.6 (generating initrd for 2.4 kernel).
-- see shy jo
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