Debian Boot Problem

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> kernel panic not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown
This generally means that initrd doesn't have the drivers for either the 
hardware with the or the filesystem in the boot partition.
Weird...
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Mark Phillips writes: 

> I ran apt-get update and apt-get upgrade this morning on an old server
> (Debian Squeeze) and the system won't boot now. I get the error 
> 
> kernel panic not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown
> -block(0,0) 
> 
> One of the updates was to kernel 2.6.32-5-686. I can boot in to safe mode
> with this kernel, and the upgrade wiped out the older version of the kernel. 
> 
> I have googled for possible solutions, but nothing helpful is popping up. I
> am also running grub, and not grub2, but that is OK for this kernel
> according to debian.org. 
> 
> Any suggestions on how to proceed? 
> 
> Thanks! 
> 
> Mark