Kernel installation on Debian

Mon Dec 13 21:55:30 UTC 2004

On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 12:39:33AM -0500, Paul King wrote:
> THis is my third attempt at writing. I have attemtped to install the 2.6.8 
> kernel binaries (precompiled from Debian) on to my Debian system. When the 
> system attempts to write the /boot/initrd file, it gets an error 
> "mkinitrd: cpu: command not found", and I get no initrd.
> 
> Any ideas as to what part of the installation is causing the error?

Is initrd-tools and module-init-tools up to date before installing the
kernel?  You seem to have over a thousand packages not up to date.

Lennart Sorensen
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