breezy: boot screen hosed

[Paul Sinnett]

On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 12:40 +0100, Paul Sinnett wrote:
> When I re-installed the older kernel I noticed that it also re-installed
> a different mkinit... program. I tried running the mkinitramfs command
> again on 12-3-386 and this resulted in the same problems as with
> 12-6-386 and 12-7-386. Re-installing kernel-image-2.6.12-3-386 fixed it
> again (presumably because it recreates the boot image using a different
> program?)
> 
> Could it be that these problems are caused by the switch to mkinitramfs?

If I use mkinitrd on the 2.6.12-7 instead of mkinitramfs then I get my
virtual terminals back and I can set the vga mode as a boot option
again.

Is there any way to diagnose mkinitramfs? Can I view the contents of the
image it creates with a tool?