Comment 4 for bug 74009

I modified /etc/fstab and the grub configuration to use /dev/hda files instead of UUID's. That got the 2.6.12 kernel to boot. There was some wierdness, like USB would not work, but I was able to use the machine. After booting 2.6.12, I "sudo aptitude install linux-generic" to get a more recent kernel.

Then I could boot reboot with the 2.6.17 (and the UUID's in the grub configuration).

It looks like what happened, is back in the hoary days I made my kernel "meta-" package linux-image-686-smp. But, unbeknownst to me, you guys stopped updating that package. So, when the edgy upgrade did all this stuff with udev, it messed my machine up.

You guys probably need to at least put a kernel version dependency in the udev package. And, since udev is so integral to edgy, maybe put an initial check in update-manager to make sure you have a minimum kernel version before starting the whole upgrade process.