This would be really easy to fix by hacking mkinitrd, either by ignoring filenames that don't start with "/", or that do start with "(", or by ignoring the linux-gate lines specially, or whatever.
Would you mind to check the attached patch for mkinitrd? As you suggested it ignores all filenames that don't start with '/'.
Regards
Harri
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