update-initramfs -u fails during install when /boot contains vmlinux symlink to an old kernel.

[Jason Toffaletti]

I tried a Flight-4 i386 install on my amd64 and selected an old /boot partition that had a 2.6.9-amd64 kernel on it from a previous install. The install failed because update-initramfs -u was being run as part of a post install script (for either initramfs-tools, initrd-tools, or udev I can't recall exactly). update-initramfs was erroring out with: "Kernel too old, requires at least 2.6.12". I fixed the problem by dropping into a console and removing the old kernel and the symlinks (vmlinux, initrd) that had been created to the old kernels, and then rerunning update-initramfs.

[Jason Toffaletti (jason)]

I noticed people are still reporting this as an issue with edgy upgrades.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 alpha?

[Javier Jardón (jjardon)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!