John Koshi wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem with the grub bootloader, as follows. I have a > laptop, with an 80G disk, with Windows XP on the first half of > the disk (NTFS), and Fedora core 4 (LVM) on the rest. Dual boot > is managed by grub, installed with the Fedora install. > > I wish to clone this disk, so I don't lose hours of setup/installs > on both OS's, and my work, in case of a crash. I did the following: > > 1) Installed Acronis 10 under Windows, and cloned the entire disk > to a 120G USB disk. > 2) Restored from that clone onto a new 80G disk of the same geometry, > and replaced the existing disk with the newly cloned one. > 3) On start-up, got a grub hang, so did the following: > a) Boot from Fedora core 4 rescue CD > b) chroot /mnt/sysimage > c) grub-install /dev/hda > d) Enter grub > e) grub> find /grub/stage1 -> gave me (hd0,3) > f) grub> root (hd0,3) > g) grub> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4 ro root=/dev/hda4 > h) grub> initrd /initrd-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.img -> gave me > "Error 16: Inconsistent filesystem structure" > i) Exit grub, repeat to step b) above, and rebuild initrd: > "mkinitrd -v -f initrd-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.img 2.6.17-1.2142_FC4 > j) Repeat from d) again, and get the same Error 16 as above. > 4) Note that after step 3-c) above, I got past the grub hang, and was able > to boot Windows. But selecting the Linux installation gave me "Error 17: > Cannot mount selected partition". That's when I did the remaining steps > above. > > Sorry about the long-winded explanation, but this is frustrating, and I > wanted to provide all the details, in the hope that some-one could throw > some light on the dark innards of grub vis-a-vis LVM, to resolve this. > > Thanks in advance. If you boot rescue disk, but don't try to mount the system, can you run fsck on the linux partitions? Is that error from step 4 from grub, or after the kernel starts booting? If the latter, and your root filesystem is a Logical Volume, you might replace the 'root=/dev/hda4' with 'root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00' or whatever the device name is for your configuration. Is there any reason you're not using RAID-1? Keeps your backup in sync automatically in real time, and works with LVM... I've never heard of Acronis, so I can't speak to it's abilities, but I'm typically suspicious of windows-based software when dealing with linux partitions. HTH, Matt _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
