Sven Luther declared on Sunday 30 October 2005 03:16 pm: > On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 12:35:55AM -0500, Patrick Finnegan wrote: > > > > You are attempting to install an initrd kernel image (version > > 2.6.14-rc5-powerpc) while running a kernel of version > > 2.4.27-powerpc, but > > Why in hell are you running a 2.4.27 kernel ? This was not the default > sarge kernel and i expicitly mentioned it should not be used, having > been mostly abandoned upstream over two years ago.
As I said in my other email, I couldn't install using the sarge netboot installer (missing yaboot binary and config, and the woody yaboot wouldn't load the initrd.gz that is available for netbooting). So, I installed woody, and dist-upgraded to testing. I've tried installing other 2.6 kernels, but (as I said before), they all kernel panic when loading the ide driver for the chipset on the machine (blue&white G3). If I wanted to be running a 2.4 kernel, why do you think I'd be trying to upgrade to a 2.6 kernel, anyways? ;) > > you have no suitable ramdisk generation tool installed among > > /usr/sbin/mkinitrd /usr/sbin/mkinitrd.yaird /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs. > > This will break the installation, unless a > > suitable ramdisk generation tool is also being installed right > > now. > > Exact, yaird cannot build initrd's running on a 2.4.27 kernel, since > it need /sys, which is only present in 2.6 kernels. > > So, you have two ways, either use initramfs-tools instead of yaird > (altough mostly untested on powerpc, may work though), or do an > intermediary upgrade to the sarge 2.6.8 kernels or the etch 2.6.12 > ones, reboot and then install, not the 2.6.14-rc5 kernels, but the > 2.6.14-1 currently in sid. As I said before, 2.6.8 and 2.6.12 debian kernels panic on boot when they're loading the driver for my IDE controller (cmd646 chipset on a blue&white G3). I was trying to install 2.6.14 to see if that fixes the problem I was having, but it seems to have its own problems in being installed from a system running a 2.4.27 kernel. > > Could not find . at /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst line 228. > > Setting up linux-image-2.6.14-rc5-powerpc > > (2.6.13+2.6.14-rc5-0experimental.1) ... Failed to find suitable > > ramdisk generation tool for kernel version 2.6.14-rc5-powerpc on > > running kernel 2.4.27-powerpc in /usr/sbin/mkinitrd > > /usr/sbin/mkinitrd.yaird /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs > > dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.14-rc5-powerpc (--configure): > > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > linux-image-2.6.14-rc5-powerpc > > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > As expected, i am happy it works as planed, but maybe i should put > more informative error message in it or something. Pat -- Purdue University ITAP/RCAC --- http://www.rcac.purdue.edu/ The Computer Refuge --- http://computer-refuge.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
