Why You Not Like My Kernel?

[Tim Johnston]

Hello All.

In process of upgrading from Debian Linux Lenny to Squeeze (6.0.0). 
Which I believe involves update from Grub 1 to 2. dpkg says that I have

> ii  grub-common 1.98+20100804-14    GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (common 
> files)
> ii  grub-pc     1.98+20100804-14    GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 
> (PC/BIOS version)

I have never used using Debian kernels much. I've always used kernels 
from ftp.kernel.org. These kernels worked previously, but with the 
upgrade, now they don't. The Debian kernel boots OK, but my kernels don't.

I get

> Loading Linux 2.6.35...
> Loading Initial Ramdisk...

And that's it. No error messages, nothing logged, presumably the system 
doesn't get as far as logging. The system locks up and then needs hard 
restart.

I've tried recompiling and installing my kernels, and running 
update-grub but it not work.

I have /boot/grub/grub.cfg as:

> ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
> menuentry 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.35' --class debian --class 
> gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
>         insmod part_msdos
>         insmod ext2
>         set root='(hd0,msdos2)'
>         search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set ad648512-e526-4fa6-8041-900e849419fc
>         echo    'Loading Linux 2.6.35 ...'
>         linux   /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35 
> root=UUID=ad648512-e526-4fa6-8041-900e849419fc ro  quiet
>         echo    'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
>         initrd  /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35
> }
> menuentry 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64' --class debian --class 
> gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
>         insmod part_msdos
>         insmod ext2
>         set root='(hd0,msdos2)'
>         search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set ad648512-e526-4fa6-8041-900e849419fc
>         echo    'Loading Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 ...'
>         linux   /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64 
> root=UUID=ad648512-e526-4fa6-8041-900e849419fc ro  quiet
>         echo    'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
>         initrd  /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-amd64
> }

Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 works OK, Linux 2.6.35 doesn't. And I need to run 
2.6.35 because the other one lacks some options that I need.

I have no idea at all on how to proceed further with this. Much obliged 
for any assistance.

regards, Tim