Re: 2.6.14 image will not install
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.
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>Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
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>http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/
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