Bug#353065: linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7: update of 2.6.15-1-k7 results in unstartable system

[Chris Searle <chris@chrissearle.org>]

Package: linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7
Version: 2.6.15-6
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system


Ran an aptitude update - linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7 updated.

Rebooted as advised (since it's the same version as the running kernel
under update).

During boot it states that it can't find /dev/hda2 and drops back to
busybox.

/dev/hda2 is my root & boot partition.

2.6.12-1-k7 still boots OK.

Notes - this is a standard deb kernel with initrd and udev booting from
grub.

I have no idea how to go about debugging this and of course - since it
can't find the disks - no logs to look in :(

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7 depends on:
ii  initramfs-tools [linux-initra 0.51       tools for generating an initramfs
ii  module-init-tools             3.2.2-2    tools for managing Linux kernel mo

Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7 recommends:
ii  libc6-i686                    2.3.6-1    GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i

-- debconf information:
  linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7/postinst/depmod-error-initrd-2.6.15-1-k7: false
  linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7/postinst/old-initrd-link-2.6.15-1-k7: true
  linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7/preinst/abort-install-2.6.15-1-k7:
  linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7/postinst/create-kimage-link-2.6.15-1-k7: true
  linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7/postinst/depmod-error-2.6.15-1-k7: false
  linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7/postinst/kimage-is-a-directory:
  linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7/preinst/lilo-has-ramdisk:
  linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7/preinst/failed-to-move-modules-2.6.15-1-k7:
  linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7/preinst/overwriting-modules-2.6.15-1-k7: true
  linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7/postinst/old-system-map-link-2.6.15-1-k7: true
  linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7/postinst/bootloader-error-2.6.15-1-k7:
* linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7/preinst/already-running-this-2.6.15-1-k7:
  linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7/preinst/initrd-2.6.15-1-k7:
  linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7/preinst/elilo-initrd-2.6.15-1-k7: true
  linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7/postinst/old-dir-initrd-link-2.6.15-1-k7: true
  linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7/postinst/bootloader-test-error-2.6.15-1-k7:
  linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7/preinst/abort-overwrite-2.6.15-1-k7:
  linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7/preinst/lilo-initrd-2.6.15-1-k7: true
  linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7/prerm/would-invalidate-boot-loader-2.6.15-1-k7: true
  linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7/preinst/bootloader-initrd-2.6.15-1-k7: true
  linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7/prerm/removing-running-kernel-2.6.15-1-k7: true