[Bug 83864] unable to install linux-image-2.6.15-27-686 into feisty - zero sized initrd image

[Martin Man]

Public bug reported:

I have dist-upgraded to feisty today and reinstalled old linux image
2.6.15, in order to build one of my 3rd party kernel modules which is
not available yet for 2.6.20. I have been unable to boot the system
because automatically generated initrd has zero size, see below:

--- cut (apt-get install linux-image-2.6.15-27-686) ---

Setting up linux-image-2.6.15-27-686 (2.6.15-27.50) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-27-686
W: udev hook script requires at least kernel version 2.6.19
W: not generating requested initramfs for kernel 2.6.15-27-686
/boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-27-686 points to /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-27-686 -- doing nothing at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.15-27-686.postinst line 565.
/vmlinuz does not exist. Installing from scratch, eh?
Or maybe you don't want a symbolic link here. Hmm? Lets See.

root at esher:~# ls -l /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-27-686 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2007-02-07 21:59 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-27-686

--- /cut ---

I don't know what's happening here, seems like older kernels can't be
installed anymore ?

** Affects: linux-source-2.6.15 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Unconfirmed

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unable to install linux-image-2.6.15-27-686 into feisty - zero sized initrd image
https://launchpad.net/bugs/83864