On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:15:06 +0100, Arun Dev wrote:

> The new kernel starts booting an halts at "Waiting for root device".
>
> Web-search says either problem of switching to udev or broken Grub. It
> can't be the former, because that transition was already done in etch.

That 2.4.19 kernel is pretty ancient, does it even know about udev? That
far back, the kernels were using devfs, IIRR.

Even if you really want 2.4, why not use the latest, which was like
2.4.33 last time I looked.