Further to my last email...
Manoj Srivastava wrote, on 2009-04-18 02:51:
severity 524499 normal
tags 524499 +moreinfo
thanks
Hi,
On Fri, Apr 17 2009, Arthur Marsh wrote:
make-kpkg --initrd linux-image
against the 2.6.27 kernel.org source.
The built package when installed did not have an initrd and when I
Did you drop in a hook script to create the initrd in
/etc/kernel? As the NEWS.Debian said, kernel-package no longer does the
creation by default.
I am changing the make-kpkg man page to clarify this.
attempted to remove the package had errors which required using
dpkg -P with force options.
Do you have a log of those errors? Given the information here,
it is hard to tell what the problem was.
manoj
When I used aptitude again, linux-2.6.27 was marked with a "c" and when
I tried to remove linux-2.6.28 with aptitude I received the errors:
aptitude
(Reading database ... 99365 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing linux-2.6.27 ...
Purging configuration files for linux-2.6.27 ...
Cannot delete /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27, doesn't exist.
run-parts: /etc/kernel/postrm.d/initramfs-tools exited with return code 1
dpkg: error processing linux-2.6.27 (--purge):
subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-2.6.27
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Press return to continue.
I temporarily added "exit 0" to the start of
/etc/kernel/postrm.d/initramfs-tools to force the removal of kernel-2.6.27.
Regards,
Arthur.
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