kernel install problems.

[Allan Bailey]

FYI

I found the answer to the mkinitrd problem on the FAIwiki, at:

http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de/index.php/User_FAQ



Allan Bailey <allan at nefud.org> wrote:
>Allan Bailey <allan at nefud.org> wrote:
>>Thomas Lange <lange at informatik.uni-koeln.de> wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 08:04:55 -0700, Allan Bailey <allan at nefud.org> said:
>>>
>>>    > from software.log I find:
>>>
>>>    > ====
>>>    > install_packages: executing chroot /tmp/target apt-get clean
>>>    > WARNING: These unknown packages are removed from the installation list: kernel-image-2.6.11-9-amd64-generic kernel-image-2.6.11
>-
>>9
>>>-amd64-\
>>>    > k8-smp ldap-client libdb-mysql-perl libstdc++2.10-dbg mtr-tiny
>>>    > ====
>>>
>>>The script install_packages checks the package name, if they exist. It
>>>seems that kernel-image-2.6.11-9-amd64-generic and the other does not
>>>exist. Try apt-cache search or show to verify this package name.
>>
>>Indeed, that was the problem.  It found this:
>>
>>kernel-image-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8-smp
>>
>>So I'm guessing that the 2.6.11 kernel is in the testing release rather than stable/sarge.
>>
>
>So new problem, to the above kernel is this:
>
>===
>
>Setting up kernel-image-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8-smp (2.6.8-14) ...
>/usr/sbin/mkinitrd: device /dev/sda1 is not a block device
>Failed to create initrd image.
>dpkg: error processing kernel-image-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8-smp (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9
>
>===
>
>
>Slowly plodding my wait through amd64 fai installs.
>
>thanks,
>allan
>
--
.allan.