Hoary (PPC): ramdisk load failed! initrd.img:no such file or directory, after daily update

[Steve Calvin]

> Hi Maximilian,
>
> Thanks for this help, but it did not work. I tried twice. The first 
> time no messages then the second time, after the "ln -s 
> /mnt/boot/initrd.img-2.6.8.1-3-powerpc /mnt/boot/initrd.img" 
> instruction, i got a "file exists" message.
>
> So it is still going into open firmware, if I "reboot" at that prompt, 
> Ubuntu starts initially but quickly ends with "kernel panic: VFS: 
> Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)" if that helps. I just 
> got my CD's today so I could reinstall but it seems kind of drastic, 
> and I'd like to learn what's happening.
>
> Thanks again
>
> steve