fred smith wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm building up a new box and plan to use Centos 5 on it. > > i've got a pair of SATA 320 GB drives to make a RAID1. > > I'm trying to follow the "howto" on the centos wiki for making a > "partitionable RAID" installation. > > Given that my partition scheme has a separate /boot partition, while > the one in the HOWTO apparently does not, I've had to tweak the steps > just slightly. But they all succeed without any problems, including > watching mdadm create the mirrored pair. > > however, when I pop out the DVD (booted in rescue mode, per the HOWTO) > and reboot, it gets past the GRUB screen and gives me these errors: > > Mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root' > setuproot: moving /dev failed: no such file or directory > setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory > setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory > switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory > Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! > > I have no idea what these errors mean. I assume they all cascade from > whatever failure the first one is trying to inform me of. I don't see > "/dev/root" anywhere in any of the config files I changed, per the > HOWTO. > > I'd appreciate clues, hints, suggestions, etc. > > Thanks in advance! > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Looks like it is not finding / The boot partition and grub appear okay, thus you may want to look at the /boot/grub/grub.conf file and check the kernel statement with root=/dev/md3 this is where my root is. HTH Rob -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: rkampen.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 196 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090722/9f54600f/attachment-0005.vcf>