Problems installing kernel 2.4.27 on sarge via apt

[Dragan Cvetkovic <me@privacy.net>]

       Hi,

just did my apt-get update and after noticing that apt-get -s dist-upgrade
wants to install kernel 2.4.27, I tried to do it by hand but failed. Here
is the session:

chopin# apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.27-1-686 
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
[snip]
Fetched 12.3MB in 1m53s (108kB/s) 
Selecting previously deselected package kernel-image-2.4.27-1-686.
(Reading database ... 59658 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking kernel-image-2.4.27-1-686 (from .../kernel-image-2.4.27-1-686_2.4.27-1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up kernel-image-2.4.27-1-686 (2.4.27-1) ...
stat: No such file or directory
awk: cmd. line:2:                       $1 ==  { print $2; exit }
awk: cmd. line:2:                              ^ syntax error
/usr/sbin/mkinitrd: /dev/sda1: Unknown root device
                    Please refer to the manual page.
Failed to create initrd image.
dpkg: error processing kernel-image-2.4.27-1-686 (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9
Errors were encountered while processing:
 kernel-image-2.4.27-1-686
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


The machine in question (an old x86) runs on SCSI drives and had no
problems installing kernel 2.4.26 a few days ago.

What did I do wrong? What shall I do to fix the problem? 

I have also noticed the following warning when running lilo 

chopin# lilo   
Warning: '/proc/partitions' does not match '/dev' directory structure.
    Name change: '/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc' -> '/dev/sda'
Added Linux *
Skipping /vmlinuz.old


Thanks and bye, Dragan

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Dragan Cvetkovic, 

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