dist-upgrade gutsy to hardy can't boot

[Felix Miata]

On 2008/01/13 23:33 (GMT-0500) Felix Miata apparently typed:

> I did apt-get dist-upgrade from gutsy to hardy. It installed generic and 386
> kernels to match the existing kernels, but generated initrds incapable of
> mounting the root filesystem that lives on sda12. Both new initramfs have
> neither /dev/disk nor /dev/sd*. I can still boot a Gutsy 2.6.22-14 kernel,
> but how do I get the initrds to build correctly for the Hardy kernels, or
> find out what went wrong when dist-upgrade built them?

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/32123
describes problem and solution that worked for me.
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