I wrote:

> > Booting the miniroot kit from the snapshot and installing the /boot
> > from that fixed the problem.
> 
> Whoops.  I meant the 1.3.2 miniroot, not the one from the snapshot.

Specifically, just in case anyone needs to know of a procedure that
works, what I did was to boot the 1.3.2 miniroot, which I happened to
have on a spare disk, and then use that to get the /boot from the
latest snapshot into place on my regular root disk.

-tih (who promises to think twice before posting, next time)
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