This could have happened because the disk went crazy during the power
outage (get a (working) backup power supply to help provide for smoother
shutdowns in the future) or maybe the kernel was lost previously and you
are only seeing this now because the kernel is only needed from disk
during bootup. Either way, you probably need to boot from external media
and put the kernel file back.
If you can share your SLES version, patches, kernel RPM version, etc., we
may be able to give more-specific instructions. Perhaps post the contents
of the /boot/grub/menu.lst file too.
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Good luck.
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