Kernel installation on Debian

[Fraser Campbell]

On Monday 13 December 2004 00:39, 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.

Wierd.

> Any ideas as to what part of the installation is causing the error?

Nope.

Try making the initrd "by hand" (mkinitrd -o /dev/null 2.6.8-1-k7), do you get 
the same error (hopefully you do).

mkinitrd is just a shell script so you can debug it fairly easily, perhaps:

  sh -vx /usr/sbin/mkinitrd -o /dev/null 2.6.8-1-k7

You didn't force the kernel in did you?  There might be other packages that 
need updating before the new kernel can work (modutils, module-init-tools, 
mkinitrd, etc.).

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