Re: Failed to find suitable ramdisk generation tool for kernel version

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Dr Adrian Midgley (In th e office) wrote:
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> Dell Poweredge 1850 SCSI RAID
> Running Sarge 2.4
> Backports version of MySQL
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> Routine running of apt-get update ... upgrade produced this:-
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> Setting up linux-image-2.6.14-2-686-smp (2.6.14-6bpo1) ...
> Running depmod.
> Finding valid ramdisk creators.
> Failed to find suitable ramdisk generation tool for kernel version
> 2.6.14-2-686-smp on running kernel 2.4.27-2-686-smp in mkinitrd.yaird
> mkinitramfs
> dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.14-2-686-smp (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9
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> I've searched with Google and don't understand it.
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> I'd appreciate comments, advice etc.
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I had this problem a few weeks ago, but I'm afraid I don't recall what 
fixed it. I vaguely remember having to reinstall initrd-tools or 
something similar.

I know this isn't any help, but at least you know someone else has seen 
a similar problem.

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Kent