On Monday 31 October 2005 18:56, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: >David Baron wrote: >>The new mkinitrd.yaird fails. Anyone else have this problem, fixed it? > >I am also having the same problem updating the kernel from >2.4.27-2-686-smp to 2.6.14-1-686 . The exact errors are as follows > > ># apt-get install linux-image-2.6.14-1-686 >Reading package lists... Done >Building dependency tree... Done >linux-image-2.6.14-1-686 is already the newest version. >0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 302 not upgraded. >1 not fully installed or removed. >Need to get 0B of archives. >After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. >Setting up linux-image-2.6.14-1-686 (2.6.14-1) ... >Failed to find suitable ramdisk generation tool for kernel version >2.6.14-1-686 on running kernel 2.4.27-2-686-smp in /usr/sbin/mkinitrd >/usr/sbin/mkinitrd.yaird /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs >dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.14-1-686 (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 >Errors were encountered while processing: > linux-image-2.6.14-1-686 >E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > >Does anyone have an idea why this is happening or should I file a bug >report? > >thanks >raju > I could be mistaken, but I believe I had to upgrade both modutils and util-linux in making the transition to building and installing 2.6 kernels. The 2.4 compat versions won't work for 2.6 stuffs. >-- >Kamaraju S Kusumanchi >http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ >http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/
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