Broken grub menu after upgrading to latest kernel

[John Chronakis <linux@vmpsoft.com>]

Hello,

After performing my daily update, which included the latest kernel 
(2.6.9-9-amd64-k8), my system (SATA boot/root) failed to reboot.
On the grub menu, default, defaut (recover), old, old (recover), 
2.6.9-9-amd64-k8 & 2.6.9-9-amd64-k8 (recover) were leading to kernel 
panic.  Thankfuly the old 2.6.8-9-amd64-k8 was working fine and I 
managed to boot without external media.

After examining /boot & /boot/grub/menu.lst I found the following errors.
1. There was no symlink intrd.img -> initrd.img-2.6.9-9-amd64-k8 in /boot
2. There was no initrd line in menu.lst for the default and the default 
(recovery) menu entries
3. In the .old I found this stragne line :
   kernel          /boot/vmlinuz.old .old ro
and corrected it to
   kernel          /boot/vmlinuz.old root=/dev/sda1 ro
(similar problem for .old (recover)
4. There was some problem for 2.6.8-9-amd64-k8 menu entries but I do not 
remember them

I am not sure if there is a problem with the latest kernel package or 
just some weird behaviour of my system.

Anyone else had similar problems?

Regards

John Chronakis