More information: Smoke-tested system with most recent version of grub-pc and grub-common from sid (versions 1.98+20100617-1 and 1.98+20100617-1) and all recent updates for Squeeze. Sorry for the delay, I had to backup everything to the moon before I could do this... ;-)
During the execution of update-grub an error message was posted with the NEW kernel (2.6.32-5-amd64) with the OLD grub: paraphrased... cannot identify / (is /dev mounted?) After updating OLD grub to version 1.98+20100617-1 and executing update-grub, the above error message disappeared. However, when I booted the machine, I cannot load the NEW kernel (2.6.32-5- amd64) at all... error message: "error: you need to load the kernel first" "Press any key to continue..." and the grub menu reappears... ...but now I CAN load the initramfs image for the old kernel (2.6.32-3-amd64) that was the original problem. Repeat: I do NOT need to load the initramfs backup image now. The above acts identically with and without the firewire device attached. I am still using the 0.96.1 version of initramfs-tools. C. Cropper -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
