Hi! I have experienced exactly the same problems as the OP and others in this thread. Uncommenting the line from param.conf did the trick; thanks for the suggestion to all the fellow bug submitters.
Given that update-initramfs did not work properly, I had to manually fix the initramfs file: $ mkdir /tmp/bla; cd /tmp/bla $ gzip -cd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-1-686-bigmem | cpio -imd Make the appropriate change in conf/param.conf with vi (no Emacs in Busybox, doh). $ find . | cpio -H newc -o | gzip -9 -n > /boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-1-686-bigmem Given my GRUB was already properly set up, I didn't need to run "update-grub". Cheerio -- Danai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org