i'm trying to install a new kernel having made my system unbootable by mucking up all my kernel and lilo configs but I get a load of errors from apt-get starting with a failure to set up initrd when installing the new kernel. I'm booted off a knoppix disk and chrooting to the drive if that has any significance
Code:
Knoppix:/boot# apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1039 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686 (2.6.8-4) ...
/usr/sbin/mkinitrd: /dev/fd does not exist
Failed to create initrd image.
dpkg: error processing kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686 (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9
Errors were encountered while processing:
kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
anyone got any idea why this might happen?
