Bug#336750: linux-image-2.6.14-1-686-smp: installation fails - cannot create initrd under 2.4.27

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 11:00:21AM +0200, Heikki Kantola wrote:
> Package: linux-image-2.6.14-1-686-smp
> Version: 2.6.14-1
> Severity: important
> 
> Looks like that the 2.6.14 kernels don't expect to be installed under
> 2.4.27, because I when I try to install the newest kernel I get error:
> 
>  Failed to find suitable ramdisk generation tool for kernel version
>  2.6.14-1-686-smp on running kernel 2.4.27-2-686-smp in
>  /usr/sbin/mkinitrd /usr/sbin/mkinitrd.yaird /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs

yaird does not support installing from a 2.4 kernel, you can though either
install initramfs-tools or do a step upgrade to 2.6.12 in testing or 2.6.8 in
sarge and then to 2.6.14.

Friendly,

Sven Luther