I noticed that my menu.lst entries generated for the testing kernel lack the line "initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.39-2-686-pae" even though that file does exist.
I have an ancient update-grub (from lenny days) and will try a newer version. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org