Bug#341524: yaird: fails to upgrade from linux-2.4 to 2.6

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

On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 01:29:08AM -0500, The Anarcat wrote:
> Package: yaird
> Version: 0.0.11-12
> Severity: important
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I just upgraded to sid from sarge, and I'm having problems moving to the
> kernel 2.6. First off, let me mention that the upgrade didn't go as
> smoothly as planned, which was to be expected nowadays... My packages
> for kernel-image-2.6 were removed somehow, probably due to the new
> linux-image kernels. Anyways...
> 
> Now that I actually try to switch to 2.6, some weird problem doesn't
> want to let me. I tried this:

Well, yaird cannot install from a 2.4 kernel, which is why you see this
failure. The correct upgrade way using yaird is to first upgrade to the sarge
(2.6.8) or etch (2.6.12) 2.6 kernel, and then upgrade to 2.6.14 after a
reboot, using yaird, or boot the current 2.6.14 based sid-d-i netinst, once
you are at the partitioning step, go to console 2, mount your root partition,
chroot into it, mount /proc and /sys, and dpkg-reconfigure
linux-image-2.6.14-2-k7. The other alternative is to install initramfs-tools,
which knows how to install from a 2.4 kernel. I prefer using yaird myself
though.

Friendly,

Sven Luther