I also suffered this boot problem. Thanks to (not so well documented) feature in update-initramfs, postinst of udev only updates the latest kernel. Thus I was able to boot with older kernel.
The latest initramfs-tools seems to solved the issue for booting and starting with latest udev. If anyone is reruning to create initramfs, please do following: (I am assuming few kernels to be there.) 1. Boot with older kernel (like 2.6.16 ones) 2. Install latest unstable versions of packages initramfs-tools 0.75 tools for generating an initramfs 3. run "update-initramfs -u" to get the latest kernel initramfs updated. 4. Reboot to confirm the latest kernel works. 5. If there is other kernel which suffered the same issue, run "update-initramfs -k all -u" and hope all kernels to work fine. This manual update is needed since udev.postinst has only "update-initramfs -u" which only works on the latest kernel version. See more on: http://bugs.debian.org/360281 http://bugs.debian.org/383600 Osamu -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ +++++ Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Yokohama Japan, GPG-key: A8061F32 .''`. Debian Reference: post-installation user's guide for non-developers : :' : http://qref.sf.net and http://people.debian.org/~osamu `. `' "Our Priorities are Our Users and Free Software" --- Social Contract -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]