[CentOS] New motherboard - kernel panic

Bowie Bailey Bowie_Bailey at BUC.com
Mon Apr 15 18:40:14 UTC 2013


On 4/15/2013 1:35 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> Bowie Bailey wrote:
>> On 4/12/2013 5:33 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote:
>>> I had to replace the motherboard on one of my CentOS 4 systems and am
>>> now getting a kernel panic.
>>>
>>> When I try to boot up, I get this:
>>>
>>>          Volume group "VolGroup00" not found
>>>        ERROR: /bin/lvm exited abnormally! (pid 448)
>>>        mount: error 6 mounting ext3
>>>        mount: error 2 mounting none
>>>        switchroot: mount failed: 22
>>>        umount /initrd/dev failed: 2
>>>        Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
>>>
>>> (I apologize for any typos, I don't have a way to copy/paste from that
>>> screen)
>>>
>>> I can boot up with the boot CD, go into rescue mode and browse the
>>> files, so I know the drives are ok.
>>>
>>> I found some stuff online saying that I should recreate my initrd from
>>> rescue mode if the motherboard changed.  I tried this, but am still
>>> getting the same results.
>> Anyone have any ideas here?  I can rebuild the machine if I have to, but
>> that's a last resort.
> Sorry, hit <send> and had another thought: I think you said you rebuilt
> the initrd... *could* you see the drives? *Did* the running system you
> rebuilt from have all the LVM drivers loaded when you rebuilt it?

I can see the drives from the rescue environment.  I don't know how to 
check the LVM drivers.

-- 
Bowie



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