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From: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 000 of 5] md: Introduction
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 21:02:16 -0500
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Ville Herva wrote:
> PS: Speaking of debugging failing initrd init scripts; it would be nice if
> the kernel gave an error message on wrong initrd format rather than silently
> failing... Yes, I forgot to make the cpio with the "-H newc" option :-/.
>   

LOL, yea, that one got me too when I was first getting back into linux a 
few months ago and had to customize my initramfs to include dmraid to 
recognize my hardware fakeraid raid0.  Then I discovered the mkinitramfs 
utility which makes things much nicer ;)