Just a thought: How many who are having problems are using multiboot?

When I first upgraded to power v44, it appeared that the kernel-power-bootimage for 42 wasn't upgraded. As a result, I didn't have a kernel for v44 in /boot/multiboot and got a kernel panic. Re-installing multiboot-kernel-power would set up a kernel and boot item for v42, but all the libs were for v44 (v42 libs were removed).

I manually added the v44 kernel and manually updated the bootmenu.item for it. Just wget'd the kernel-power-bootimage for v44, installed via dpkg, re-installed multiboot-kernel-power, and everything looks fine now.

In other words my kernel version and lib versions weren't matching, so it wouldn't boot. Don't know if that will help anyone else or not.