[Hampshire] Anyone know the Debian boot sequence?

Hi All.

I'm running out of ideas. I could do with a hand...

I've got a Debian machine - mostly Etch, but it's been hacked at a bit.

It doesn't boot. I've traced the boot sequence to the end of init in the
initrd image, at which point it calls run-init.

It never gets to /sbin/init on the main filesystem (which is where it's
heading).

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Vic.