Why is it looking for /root/dev ?

[Mike Yates]

I've upgraded my 9.10 to 10.04 on-line but it will only work with the
older kernel (2.6.31-21) not 2.6.32-21, which locks up completely while
attempting to start a recovery shell (busybox started but no prompt).
Among the messages above that are three curious ones, failing to find
/root/dev, /root/proc and /root/sys, also "no /sbin/init.007".
As I said, switching to the older kernel, with all the same arguments on
the same filesystem, works perfectly.
Is the initrd corrupt?
I've tried "apt-get install --reinstall linux-image-2.6.32-21-generic"
to no avail.

Does this give anyone here an immediate clue?

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Mike Yates           Frome   Somerset   England