Re: FC10 does not boot when HDD moved to another machine

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On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Frank Millman wrote:
>
> Thanks for the reply, Mikkel.
>
> I tried, but unfortunately I don't know enough to figure it out :-(
>
> I ran chroot /mnt/sysimage. I read 'man mkinitrd', but I cannot work out
> what parameters to use. I tried 'mkinitrd -vf', but it just returned to the
> prompt silently. I rebooted, but nothing had changed.
>
> I cannot see anything in /boot - it seems that it is not mounted, and I
> don't know how to mount it manually. /etc/fstab shows a UUID number.
>
> It is not that important for me to get this working - I don't mind
> re-installing from scratch. However, it would be nice to know how to solve
> this problem for the future, in case it ever happens with live data
> involved. For example, a mother board could fail, but the HDD is intact, so
> you just want to move it to a new machine.
>
> BTW, getting it to work off the old machine is not important, so a simple
> re-generation of the image is sufficient.
>
> Any assistance will be appreciated.
>
> Frank
>
Well, if you were building for kernel 2.6.26.3-14.f8, you would run:

mkinitrd /boot/test.img 2.6.26.3-14.f8

Then you would have something like this in grub.conf (excuse the
line wrap):

title New Board
       root (hd0,0)
       kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.26.3-14.fc8 ro
root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
       initrd /test.img
title Fedora (2.6.26.3-14.fc8)
       root (hd0,0)
       kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.26.3-14.fc8 ro
root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
       initrd /initrd-2.6.26.3-14.fc8.img

You your F10 kernel instead of the F8 one listed here. Make sure you
do it with the new motherboard.

Mikkel
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The easiest way, if you have access to the internet, is to use the rescue disk,
"chtoot /mnt/sysimage" and then install a new kernel via yum (depending on what you have installed, you may need to remove a kernel before, by using "rpm -e kernel-.....").

This is how I do in cases like this ....

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