kernel panic

[jimbob@ubu]

Hi all I experienced the same problem
after an apt-get dist-upgrade.   I was running from hoary sources 
but there was some conflicts.  During an apt-get dist-upgrade the
machine froze and I had to bring it down hard.  After that I just get
kernel panic about not finding pivot_root.  I fscked my boot partition
but still get thee panic and I found nothing in lost+found.  I chrooted
from a knoppix cd to install a later kernel and maybe more recent
initrd-tools but to no avail.  They install fine but on reboot still
get kernel panic.

I will upgrade today and see what happens.  Anyone got any ideas why
this happened or a good website with a howto for exploring initrd ??

thanks


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jimbob at ubu