On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 13:07 -0400, Ben Russo wrote: > I have a RHEL-2.1ES OS running just fine on a standard PC (with an IDE > disk). > > 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. > Hi Ben. Just a guess - is there a /initrd directory at all? It should be there. Cheers, Michael -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
