Comment 47 for bug 201673

"first reported on 2008-03-13'

Must have something to do with the 13th... Just did today's upgrades (April 13th) and the linux-restricted 386 kernel drops to initramfs busybox shell. Booting into -generic works fine.

Oddly enough, installing live-initramfs in the working (generic) kernel did not resolve the problem. But then removing (sudo apt-get remove live-initramfs) did, as the removal regenerated new boot initrd.img's for all the installed kernels.

$ sudo apt-get remove live-initramfs
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  user-setup busybox
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  live-initramfs
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 373kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 150602 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing live-initramfs ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-16-generic
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-16-386
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-15-generic
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-15-386
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-14-generic
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-14-386