Latest initramfs-tools from FAI repo breaks Ubuntu

[Thomas Lange]

>>>>> On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 19:24:44 +0200, Robert Markula <robert.markula at gmx.net> said:

    > Hey guys,
    > since the end of this week (I can't tell the exact date/time, since I've
    > not been working on the network here; must have been somewhere around
    > the 1st of april) I suddenly couldn't boot my Ubuntu 9.10 karmic
    > machines anymore. Grub2 would hang with the error message:
There's a new live-initramfs package since apr/1 and a new
initramfs-tools appeared a few days later in the FAI repository.

    > /scripts/init-top/brltty: 19: grep: not found
    > svgalib: Cannot open /dev/mem.

Mmmm. I do not have a init-top/brltty script in my nfsroot (Debian
lenny), but I'm pretty sure that grep is availabe via the busybox tool.

-- 
regards Thomas