[Bug 33101] Re: update-initramfs -u fails during install when /boot contains vmlinux symlink to an old kernel.

[erdem yılmaz]

** Also affects: linux-signed-hwe (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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

Status in initramfs-tools:
  New
Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in linux-signed-hwe package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  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.

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