When installing a linux-image-<version> package dpkg exits on not finding 'postinst hook script [""]' . Seems like a bug to me.
--<snip>-- Finding valid ramdisk creators. Using mkinitramfs-kpkg to build the ramdisk. Could not find postinst hook script [""]. Looked in: '/bin', '/sbin', '/usr/bin', '/usr/sbin' dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.17-2-k7 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 --<snip>--
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