Re: [CentOS] mount the wrong device after system recovery

At Tue, 8 Feb 2011 13:51:32 -0500 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:

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Hi,

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:

•     Mounting /dev/sdb1 on /sysroot
  
  

•     Mount: mounting /dev/sdb1 on /sysroot failed: No such file or
  

directory

•     Mount: mounting /dev on /sysroot/dev failed: No such file or
  

directory

•     * switching / to /sysroot
  
  

•     Switch_root: bad newroot /sysroot
  
  

•     Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
  
  
  
  

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).

Thanks,

•      xinhuan
  
  

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