kernel missing after apt-get dist-upgrade

[seth vidal]

> I hit a similar problem using yum. It did not install the new kernel,
> but did not remove any of the kernels already present. I manually
> installed the kernel successfully.
> 
> In addition, when the 2.6.1 kernel was installed, the new kernel was
> put in the first stanza of grub.conf, but the value of default in
> grub.conf was set to 1, resulting in default booting to a 2.4.x
> kernel. The work-around, of course, is to hand edit grub.conf to set
> default to 0. Prior kernel installations have always set default to 0.

I'm confused - you're not seeing the new kernel in yum either? Do you
have the kernel excluded in your yum.conf?

-sv