Comment 152 for bug 290153

I don't know if this helps or not, but I'll throw it in anyway. I had the same issue with 2.6.28-12-generic on the same Intel MB. When I tried to reinstall the kernel from the CLI, APT gave me a message about DPKG needing to be reconfigured. I followed the command it gave me (sudo dpkg --configure -a). It went through process of reconfiguring everything, including the kernel. From that point, I've been able to boot just fine, without a workaround.