Trying to get a new kernel, this is my result:

<pt-get install 'kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686' ;echo RESULT=$?
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 566 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686 (2.6.8-2) ...
/usr/sbin/mkinitrd: line 1: mkext2fs: command not found
Failed to create initrd image.
dpkg: error processing kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686 (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9
Errors were encountered while processing:
kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
RESULT=100

This means...?