dist-upgrade installed new kernel = KERNEL PANIC

[Dennis Kaarsemaker]

On wo, 2005-11-23 at 22:58 +1100, James Gray wrote:
> Great.  That's just super.  I noticed the Bugtraq message (USN-219-1) about 
> a new kernel to fix some vulnerabilties so like a good little boy I go 
> through the "apt-get update && apt-get -u dist-upgrade" and voila.  New 
> kernel, grub updated, now reboot.
> 
> Reboot gets as far as uncompressing the kernel (2.6.12-10-686) then trying 
> to load the initrd.  It then barfs saying it ran out of compressed data and 
> can't find the root file system.  Surprise, surprise.
> 
> This will teach me for doing an update the night before a customer demo.  
> Sigh.  With a bit of luck, I *might* get this fixed before I fly out in 5 
> hours time.

You can still boot into the old kernel, do that and do dpkg-reconfigure
linux-image-2.6.12-10-686
-- 
Dennis K.
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