kernel install problems.

[Allan Bailey]

Sadly, I was wrong about this.  It does fix the install of the 2.6.8-11 kernel.
Even though the logs say that 'mkinitrd' failed, there is is an initrd image there.

The failure from the logs:
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Setting up kernel-image-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8-smp (2.6.8-14) ...
/usr/sbin/mkinitrd: device /dev/sda1 is not a block device
Failed to create initrd image.
dpkg: error processing kernel-image-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8-smp (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9

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The files that show up anyway:
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-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1074113 May 31 16:42 System.map-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8-smp
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   46493 May 31 14:58 config-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8-smp
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 Sep  9 04:36 grub
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 4280320 Sep  9 04:36 initrd.img-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8-smp
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1272761 May 31 16:42 vmlinuz-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8-smp
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The /boot/grub/menu.lst  lists:
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title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-11-amd64-k8-smp
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8-smp root=/dev/sda1 ro console=tty0 console=ttyS1,9600n8
savedefault
boot

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And when it comes up, kernel panic, /dev/sda1 can't be found or some such.

So far Google, the FAIwiki, etc turn up nothing useful.  

Any clues, pointers, etc. would be much appreciated.

thanks,