At Tue, 8 Feb 2011 13:51:32 -0500 CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I am recovering a CentOS 5.4 system. I've copied all partitions into the
> recovery system. I've installed grub boot loader. However, the original
> system is using /dev/sdb1 for root (/), while the recovery system is
> using LVM (/dev/vg0/lv1) for root (/). When recovery system boots, I got
> the panic error:
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> * Mounting /dev/sdb1 on /sysroot
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> * Mount: mounting /dev/sdb1 on /sysroot failed: No such file or
> directory
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> * Mount: mounting /dev on /sysroot/dev failed: No such file or
> directory
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> * * switching / to /sysroot
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> * Switch_root: bad newroot /sysroot
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> * Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
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> I've changed the recovery system fstab to use the correct devices. I
> deleted recovery system etc/lvm/cache/.cache file. But it still doesn't
> work. What am I missing?
You need to rebuild the initrd and make sure the grub.conf file is
up-to-date (has the right thing for the root parameter).
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> Thanks,
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> - xinhuan
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