Silent boot hang with new kernel

[Tomas Brunclik]

Hi,
I installed new binary kernel using package 
kernel-image-2.6.0-1-686*.deb. I'm running Debian unstable. When I 
select the new kernel in lilo menu it shows this message:

Loading Linux.........................
BIOS data check successful
The message then disappears and I have nice clean black screen - no 
messages!. The only way to get out of it is to press the reset button. 
The other two kernels I have still work normal - after the disappearing 
of abovementioned message continues normal boot-up process with messages 
listing.
During the installation of the kernel a message appeared, that it needs 
initrd configured in lilo, so I edited lilo.conf and added the line 
initrd=/initrd.img
It is link to 4MB uncompressed /boot/initrd-<kernelversion>.img 
(untouched - as it came with the kernel package) - so I tried also to 
put direct path to this file and also tried comment out the initrd line. 
No difference.
So maybe I still have some stupid bug in lilo.conf, or it may be 
something other - maybe: the /boot dir with all the kernels and initrd 
image is part of the 5 GB root partition -so may it be that some file is 
physically stored beyond some size border where it is unaccessible 
during the boot process?

Thanks for any hints.
Tomas IV.
My lilo.conf (minus most comments):
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lba32
boot=/dev/hda
root=/dev/hda1
bitmap=/usr/share/lilo/contrib/sid.bmp
bmp-colors=1,,0,2,,0
bmp-table=120p,173p,1,15,17
bmp-timer=254p,432p,1,0,0
install=/boot/boot-bmp.b
#install=/boot/boot-menu.b
map=/boot/map
delay=20
# message=/boot/bootmess.txt
prompt
timeout=150
#vga=791
vga=normal
append="hdb=scsi hdc=scsi hdd=scsi apm=power-off nomce"

default=Linux-suse

image=/vmlinuz
        label=Linux-2.6
        initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.0-1-686
#       read-only
#       optional
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-xfs
        label=Linux
        read-only
#       restricted
#       alias=1
image=/boot/suselinuz
        label=Linux-suse
        read-only
        append="hdb=scsi hdc=scsi hdd=scsi apm=power-off nomce"
        optional
#       restricted
#       alias=2
# If you have another OS on this machine to boot...
#
# other=/dev/hda4
#       label=HURD
#       restricted
#       alias=3
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