I don't really understand what's happening here. 2.6.15 images install perfectly and use initramfs-tools, but 2.6.16 seems to get totally confused and tries to use yaird instead. The system is running 2.4.27. ii initramfs-tools 0.55b tools for generating an initramfs ii udev 0.087-2 /dev/ and hotplug management daemon un yaird <none> (no description available) $ sudo dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.16-rc5-s390_2.6.15+2.6.16-rc5-0experimental.1_s390.deb Selecting previously deselected package linux-image-2.6.16-rc5-s390. (Reading database ... 24501 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking linux-image-2.6.16-rc5-s390 (from linux-image-2.6.16-rc5-s390_2.6.15+2.6.16-rc5-0experimental.1_s390.deb) ... Could not find mkinitrd.yaird. at /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst line 236, <STDIN> line 9. Done. Setting up linux-image-2.6.16-rc5-s390 (2.6.15+2.6.16-rc5-0experimental.1) ... Hmm. The package shipped with a symbolic link /lib/modules/2.6.16-rc5-s390/source However, I can not read it: No such file or directory Therefore, I am deleting /lib/modules/2.6.16-rc5-s390/source Running depmod. Finding valid ramdisk creators. Failed to find suitable ramdisk generation tool for kernel version 2.6.16-rc5-s390 on running kernel 2.4.27-2-s390 in mkinitrd.yaird dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.16-rc5-s390 (--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9 Errors were encountered while processing: linux-image-2.6.16-rc5-s390
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