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From: Heikki Kantola <hezu+debian@iki.fi>
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Subject: linux-image-2.6.14-1-686-smp: installation fails - cannot create initrd
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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
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-686-smp
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.14-1-686-smp depends on:
ii module-init-tools 3.2-pre9-3 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii yaird [linux-initramfs-tool] 0.0.11-10 Yet Another mkInitRD
linux-image-2.6.14-1-686-smp recommends no packages.
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To: Heikki Kantola <hezu+debian@iki.fi>, 336750-done@bugs.debian.org
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Subject: Re: Bug#336750: linux-image-2.6.14-1-686-smp: installation fails - cannot create initrd under 2.4.27
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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
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