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Newbe, just migrated from Mandriva 2010.2, added the Cauldron repos and applied "urpmi --replacefiles --auto-update --auto". Booting with the old kernel (vmlinuz-2.6.38.8-desktop-9.mga) works okay, but with the same boot command line for vmlinuz-3.2.1-desktop-1.mga2 or vmlinuz-3.2.1-desktop-2.mga2 this happens:

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dracut Warning:  Unable to process initqueue.
"/dev/disk/by-uid/137ba20a-e9b7-4c9f-a3c5-77b9bb8a185a" does not exist
Dropping to debug shell
sh: canẗ access tty;  job control turned off

Removed "quiet splash=silent" from the boot command line in menu.lst to look for other clues, but did not get any. Changed root=UUID=137ba20a-... for root=/dev/sdb3 and corresponding entries in /etc/fstab, but now I instead get this message:

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"dev/sdb3" does not exist

Help would be very much appreciated

A direct upgrade path from Mandriva 2010.2 is not really supported, you should have upgraded to Mageia 1 first, and then to Cauldron.
Maybe you might want to look at https://www.zarb.org/pipermail/mageia-d ... 11416.html but in general i think your initrd's
need to be regenerated, you could try with booting the older kernel, completely updating the system and then do the following as root:

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bootloader-config --action rebuild-initrds

Maybe I was unclear, I did first migrate to Mageia 1, and from there added the Cauldron repos and applied "urpmi --replacefiles --auto-update --auto". Your suggestion to rebuild the initrds worked splendidly! Thank you very much dr5000!