[CentOS] New motherboard - kernel panic

Mon Apr 15 17:11:45 UTC 2013
Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey at BUC.com>

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.

The old board was an ASUS A8N-VM CSM with the NVIDIA nForce 430 chipset.

The new board is an ASRock A785GM-LE board with the AMD SB710 chipset.

Thanks,

-- 
Bowie