Problema para instalar kernel en Debian

[luisviveropenna en cdsl.cl]

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>> Hum, Yaird ciertamente no es un bootloader -- es un programa tipo
>> mkinitrd, para generar imagenes initrd.  No tiene nada que ver con LILO
>> ni GRUB.

Asi es:

morenisco en oasis:~$ apt-cache show yaird

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Yaird generates initial boot images in initramfs format.
 The boot image is an intermediate step between the boot loader
 (eg Grub, Lilo) and the init scripts on the root file system;
 it loads modules and enables devices to a level where the kernel
 can access the real root file system, and then hands over control
 to the init scripts.
 .
 Compared with earlier implementations like mkinitrd, it does a
 better job of deciding which modules are needed for your system,
 so it produces smaller images and there is less risk of making
 an image that will not boot.  This comes at a price:
 only Linux 2.6 is supported (because 2.6 has sysfs, which makes
 it a lot easier to do a hardware inventory).
 .
 See mkinitrd.yaird(8) for how to activate the program.
 .
 Supported: SATA, IDE, LVM2, mdadm, cryptsetup, cryptsetup-luks
 (cryptsetup-luks is not yet in the official Debian distribution),
 USB keyboards, NFS root.
 .
 Untested: USB storage, SCSI, Compaq SMART2 Smart Arrays.
 .
 Not yet supported: EVMS, swsusp, firewire, DASD, loopback, loopaes,
 dmraid.
 .
 See http://wiki.debian.org/InitrdReplacementOptions for status and
 comparison with other ramdisk tools.

Claro, sobre algunas versiones del kernel usa yaird para crear la imagen
initrd, y como le especifique a la compilacion que la cree, necesita el
paquete.

Saludos.