The initrd on the other hand should work. What was the error?
I was trying to install various kernel images, including one I
compiled
myself using make-kpkg. I would get past the kernel installation to
the
initrd installation and then see this:
Unpacking kernel-image-2.6-amd64-generic (from
.../kernel-image-2.6-amd64-generic_100_i386.deb) ...
Setting up kernel-image-2.6.8-9-amd64-generic (2.6.8-8) ...
cpio: (0x00000000): No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `(0x00000000)': No such file or directory
run-parts: /usr/share/initrd-tools/scripts/e2fsprogs exited with
return
code 1
Failed to create initrd image.