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Old 05-05-2012
Only have initramfs now...
Long story short, I had a ps3 with both Lenny and Sid repositories. Knowing this is a bad idea and that Lenny is being deprecated I decided I wanted to move everything to Sid. I changed my repos and ran apt-get-update, upgrade, dist-upgrade. Had one warning during the apt-get upgrade that version of HAL I was about to install would not be supported by the kernel. I figured dist-upgrade would add a new kernel and if not I had made a backup. I proceeded and after rebooting I just have an "initramfs" prompt instead of a kde login screen. There's no apt or dpkg and it seems my backup file may be corrupted as it does not open now...

I would like to get this up and running again, preferably with Sid.

If anyone has ANY advice it would be MUCH appreciated.
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update-initramfs.conf

UPDATE-INITRAMFS.CONF(5)				   update-initramfs.conf manual 				  UPDATE-INITRAMFS.CONF(5)

NAME

       update-initramfs.conf - configuration file for update-initramfs

DESCRIPTION

       The configuration file allows one to disable the update action from update-initramfs.

GENERAL VARIABLES

	update_initramfs
	      Default  is  yes	for  running  the  latest  initramfs-tools  hooks  in the newest Linux image.  Setting it to all updates any known
	      initramfs.  It is possible to set it to no for remote servers or boxes where conservative manners needs to be applied. This disables
	      the update_initramfs -u call.

	backup_initramfs
	      If set update_initramfs keeps an .bak file of the previous initramfs. If unset the backup initramfs will not be kept.

FILES

       /etc/initramfs-tools/update-initramfs.conf

AUTHOR

       The initramfs-tools are written by Maximilian Attems <maks@debian.org>, Jeff Bailey <jbailey@raspberryginger.com> and numerous others.

SEE ALSO

	initramfs.conf(5), initramfs-tools(8), mkinitramfs(8), update-initramfs(8).

Linux								    2010/04/05						  UPDATE-INITRAMFS.CONF(5)