Hi jggimi,
The idiot comment was in regards to the
kernel.SHA256 issue. Not that there are no other reasons.
And, you are, of course, correct again. I looked through the
/var/log/messages and, indeed, the re-link failure was what cause the boot to abort. The
kernel.SHA256 file still existed, but was corrupted to make its size 0.
Once again, thank you.
Kindest regards,
M