Hi, I got the same problem again, and it seems it has been caused by yet another update of initramfs-tools, as there's a 0.53c version in my /var/cache/apt/archives
The problem is that this time I don't have the other kernel image to boot. So, I'm writing this from a boot from an old Knoppix cd... My system has become unbootable! The error is (including typos): RAMDISK: couldn't find a valid RAM disk image starting at 0 VFS: Cannot open root device "306" or unknown-block at (3,6) PLease append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,6) I tried to chroot to the disk, but running update-initramfs -t -u -k 2.6.15-1-k7 updates the initrd.img, but doesn't fix the problem. Also dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-* doesn't help, I get this error: # dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7 sh: /dev/null: Permission denied sh: /dev/null: Permission denied Running depmod. Finding valid ramdisk creators. sh: /dev/null: Permission denied sh: /dev/null: Permission denied Failed to find suitable ramdisk generation tool for kernel version 2.6.15-1-k7 on running kernel 2.4.20-xfs in mkinitramfs-kpkg mkinitrd.yaird Both initramfs-tools and yaird are installed of course. I will now try to burn a Knoppix cd with a 2.6 kernel, to see if that improves things. Can you please do something about this problem (which causes the kernel panics)? It's quite annoying! Thanks! PLease e-mail me to this address if you have any other advice. -- Grtjs, Manuel PS: http://manuel.msxnet.org/
