I wanted to migrate that system to a new box with a SCSI disk.
I used a 3rd box running RHEL-3 to mount the new SCSI disk,
used fdisk to create all the partitions, and mkfs.ext3 to create the filesystems, e2label to label them, and then I mounted them all up
and used rsync -avzH <oldserver>:/* . -exclude "proc/*"
Everything seemed to work fine.
Then I chroot'd into the new filesystem
I then edited the /etc/modules.conf and added a line for the scsi hostadaptor, and deleted the /etc/mtab, and edited the /etc/fstab
and modified it appropriately.
I created new initrd files, and edited grub.conf
I put the SCSI disk in the new box, booted from RHEL-3 CD in rescue mode, chrooted into /mnt/sysimage edited the /boot/grub/devices.map
and then ran grub-install.
Rebooted off the SCSI disk. Worked up until I get:
... Partition check: sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 sda9 > Loading jbd module Journalled Block Device driver loaded Loading ext3 module Mounting /proc filesystem Creating root device Mountin root filesystem mount: error 19 mounting ext3 pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2 Freeing unused kernel memory: 228k freed Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel
I checked that /dev/sd* devices are all there, and they have the right
perm's and ownership. I also can boot from rescue CD and mount up all
the filesystems as ext3 (they are clean). I triple checked my grub.conf file and devices.map and initrd stuff. All the modules seem to have loaded fine, and it can see the disk (as evidenced by the partition check). I also have another box with identical hardware and I confirmed that it has the same devices.map and grub.conf config...
What gives? What does this error "error 19 mounting ext3" mean then?
Thanks in advance, -Ben.
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