Kernel installation on Debian

[Paul King]

> 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.

a slight correction here. After checking /boot/, mkinitrd does exist, but it is 
just a zero-length file.

> 
> 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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