Package: linux-image-2.6.22-3-686 (2.6.22-6) 
Description: I installed base system of etch (stable) on a virtual machine 
within vmware (the free version) with the intention to do a dist-upgrade to 
lenny. (Etch works fine, I have multiple systems -desktop etc) running on 
"etch" virtual machines.). 

>From the command prompt of the etch base system I invoked aptitude and updated 
>the system because there were security patches showing up. I subsequently 
>modified the /etc/apt/sources.list file to have all the entries point to 
>"lenny." 

>From the command prompt I executed the following commands 

->aptitude update 
->aptitude dist-upgrade 

when the upgrade finished I re-booted and noted that I now had two different 
kernel entires in the grub menu, 

these were the etch kernel 2.6.15 and the lenny kernel 2.6.22 

I booted with the lenny kernel and after part of the boot the system hung at 
the following line 

->waiting for root file system... 

eventually the system went into an initramfs shell and that was that...I did 
not know what to do there:-) 

When I boot with the 2.6.15 kernel, the boot completed, I logged into root and 
in fact I went ahead and installed the rest of the Lenny system (desktop..etc). 

let me know if there is any other info that I can provide 

TedF 



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