Re: yaird problem with kernel-image-2.6-686-smp

[Florian Kulzer <florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl>]

Joshua Swink wrote:
> When I try to install kernel-image-2.6-686-smp, the package fails to
> set up. I get the following errors:
>
> Setting up linux-image-2.6.15-1-686-smp (2.6.15-1) ...
> Running depmod.
> Finding valid ramdisk creators.
> Using mkinitrd.yaird to build the ramdisk.
> yaird error: '/dev/hda1' not found (/etc/fstab:5) (fatal)
> Failed to create initrd image.
> dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.15-1-686-smp (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9
>
> Line 5 of /etc/fstab is:
>
> /dev/hda1       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
>
> How can this be fixed?
>
> Josh

Hi Joshua,

I had the same problem and it went away after I installed the packages
"initramfs-tools" and  "initrd-tools" (on a Sid box). This avoids using
yaird which seems to be a bit touchy at the moment. (There are some
related bug reports in the BTS and they might contain a more elegant fix
for this problem, but I did not have the time to look into this any
deeper.)

I hope this helps.

Regards,
          Florian