Bug#425851: linux-image-2.6.21-1-686: 2.6.21 doesn't find HDD in VMware Workstation (2.6.20 did)

[Olaf van der Spek <OlafvdSpek@GMail.Com>]

Package: linux-image-2.6.21-1-686
Version: 2.6.21-2
Severity: important

Hi,

I've installed 2.6.21 on two different VMware Workstation guests running on two different hosts and both fail to boot. 

They wait for a long time at "Begin: Waiting for root file system... ..."
Then it says:
ALERT!  /dev/sha1 does not exist.  Dropping to a shell!

I have no idea how to debug this.

Olaf

-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.20-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.21-1-686 depends on:
ii  initramfs-tools [linux-initr 0.87b       tools for generating an initramfs
ii  module-init-tools            3.3-pre11-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo

Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.21-1-686 recommends:
ii  libc6-i686                    2.5-8      GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i

-- debconf information:
  shared/kernel-image/really-run-bootloader: true
  linux-image-2.6.21-1-686/postinst/kimage-is-a-directory:
  linux-image-2.6.21-1-686/prerm/removing-running-kernel-2.6.21-1-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.21-1-686/preinst/lilo-initrd-2.6.21-1-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.21-1-686/preinst/elilo-initrd-2.6.21-1-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.21-1-686/postinst/depmod-error-2.6.21-1-686: false
  linux-image-2.6.21-1-686/postinst/old-initrd-link-2.6.21-1-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.21-1-686/preinst/lilo-has-ramdisk:
  linux-image-2.6.21-1-686/preinst/abort-overwrite-2.6.21-1-686:
  linux-image-2.6.21-1-686/postinst/bootloader-error-2.6.21-1-686:
  linux-image-2.6.21-1-686/preinst/bootloader-initrd-2.6.21-1-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.21-1-686/postinst/old-dir-initrd-link-2.6.21-1-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.21-1-686/postinst/bootloader-test-error-2.6.21-1-686:
  linux-image-2.6.21-1-686/preinst/already-running-this-2.6.21-1-686:
  linux-image-2.6.21-1-686/prerm/would-invalidate-boot-loader-2.6.21-1-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.21-1-686/preinst/abort-install-2.6.21-1-686:
  linux-image-2.6.21-1-686/postinst/depmod-error-initrd-2.6.21-1-686: false
  linux-image-2.6.21-1-686/postinst/old-system-map-link-2.6.21-1-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.21-1-686/preinst/failed-to-move-modules-2.6.21-1-686:
  linux-image-2.6.21-1-686/preinst/initrd-2.6.21-1-686:
  linux-image-2.6.21-1-686/postinst/create-kimage-link-2.6.21-1-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.21-1-686/preinst/overwriting-modules-2.6.21-1-686: true