DaveQB's Rambles

This thread has most of the information apart from dealing with this issue if you can not boot into your PCLinuxOS install. I added my bit to the thread and will add it here aswell.

I have to add this for people who have this issue but are unable to boot because of it (like I couldn't after a motherboard upgrade)
Its almost like a Windows issue with a motherboard swap causing the system to fail to boot.
To add to old-polack comments. I found that inspecting the initrd script inside the initrd there is reference to a UUID of the root partition. I found this odd ad my root partition resides on an LV.
So to resolve this (after many hours of online searching and reading and re-reading this thread)

1. Boot into a live environment similar to your PCLinuxOS. I used PClinuxOS minime 2010.
2. mkdir /mnt/root
3. mount /dev/mapper/main-slash (or /dev/sda2 or where ever your root partition is) /mnt/root.
4. mount -o bind /proc /mnt/root/proc
5. mount -o bind /sys /mnt/root/sys
6. mount -o bind /dev /mnt/root/dev
7. chroot /mnt/root
8. bootloader-config --action rebuild-initrds
9. Reboot

I am going from memory so commands might be slightly off.