Package: initrd-tools Version: 0.1.76 Severity: wishlist
If someone ever tried initrd tools for debian and red hat you'l find a "little" difference . With red hat tools you can do whatever you want and to customize initrd image the way you want very easy. IN other way the dabian mkinitrd is very bad documented, can't do most of the things for more complex operation or isn't documented how to do this operations. So my suggestion is ... get red hat initrd-tools and make them work in debian and drop current initrd-tools OR make this thing works as it works in Red Hat . This my opinion is based on my battle for crating initrd image for booting strange raid controler ITE8212f and complains from my friend that he can't make initrd image to boot from USB Ffash memory with debian but there isn't ANY problems with redhat. And wow there are so many bug about initrd-tools. I think debian kernel development team have to take this things very seriosly. Sorry for bad english and this is only my opinion. It is possible that i am wrong:) Thanks -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) 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 ii cramfsprogs 1.1-6 Tools for CramFs (Compressed ROM F ii dash 0.5.1-3 The Debian Almquist Shell ii fileutils 5.2.1-2 The GNU file management utilities ii util-linux 2.12-10 Miscellaneous system utilities -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
