[plug] SATA drives on another system

[Andrew Howell]

Check http://linux.m2osw.com/pivot_root.html
According to that it seems like the device name of your drives has probably
changed.

Were they mirrored? Did you plug them in a different order? It sounds like
the root partition isn't on sda1 anymore at a guess.

I'd suggest booting with a rescue cd and checking where the root partition
actually is.

Andrew

2009/1/29 Jon L. Miller <jlmiller at mmtnetworks.com.au>

> Andrew,
> I'm using Debian Sarge.
>
> Jon
> On Thu, January 29, 2009 14:34, Andrew Howell wrote:
> > I'd say your initrd image doesn't have the correct SATA driver now.
> > Are you using Fedora or RHEL?
> >
> > I think you need to boot off a fedora/redhat rescue cd and then chroot to
> > your root partition and run mkinitrd to make a new initrd.
> > You probably need to edit /etc/modprobe.conf and change the
> > scsi-controller
> > alias to use the correct sata driver.
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> > 2009/1/29 Jon L. Miller <jlmiller at mmtnetworks.com.au>
> >
> >> I've had to put a pair of SATA drives on another system (motherboard
> >> failure) and now I get the following on booting up:
> >> /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386/kernel/drivers/scsi/sata_sis.o
> >> Journalled Block Device driver load
> >> pivot_root: No such file or directory
> >> sbin/init: 432 Cannot open dev/console: no such file
> >> Kernel pani: attempted to kill init
> >>
> >> >From there it stops, if I go into Grub when it's booting (pressing "e")
> >> I
> >> issue the commands:
> >> Kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-386 root=/dev/sda1 ro
> >> initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-2-386
> >> savedefault
> >> boot
> >>
> >> The savedefault command fails with an invalid command.
> >>
> >> Anyone know how I can get this server back up and running? It's only for
> >> a
> >> short time period?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
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> >> Jon L. Miller MCNE CNE CCNA
> >> East Perth, WA 6004
> >> WA, Australia
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