I had an issue booting with kernel 2.6.31-20 that got solved when upgrading to *-21. Can you try to press SHIFT when you start the machine so that it shows the Grub menu, select an older kernel to boot (like *-19) and do a dist-upgrade to install the latest kernel?
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