Kernel Panic!

[afonit]

yes, I came back from vacation, turned on my computer, and I received
that same message aswell.  

right after it says loading GRUB, it then says this:

root  (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel  /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1-686 root=/dev /hda1 ro quiet splash
[Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0x123371]
initrd  /boot/initrd.img-2.6.9-1-686
[Linux-initrd @ 0xfb96000, 0x44a000 bytes]
savedefault
boot
Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.
Starting Ubuntu...
pivot_root: No such file or directory
/sbin/init: 428: cannot open dev/console: No such file
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!


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afonit