I'd say your initrd image doesn't have the correct SATA driver now.<div><br></div><div>Are you using Fedora or RHEL?</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div>You probably need to edit /etc/modprobe.conf and change the scsi-controller alias to use the correct sata driver.</div><div><br></div><div>Andrew<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/1/29 Jon L. Miller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jlmiller@mmtnetworks.com.au">jlmiller@mmtnetworks.com.au</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I've had to put a pair of SATA drives on another system (motherboard<br>
failure) and now I get the following on booting up:<br>
/lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386/kernel/drivers/scsi/sata_sis.o<br>
Journalled Block Device driver load<br>
pivot_root: No such file or directory<br>
sbin/init: 432 Cannot open dev/console: no such file<br>
Kernel pani: attempted to kill init<br>
<br>
>From there it stops, if I go into Grub when it's booting (pressing "e") I<br>
issue the commands:<br>
Kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-386 root=/dev/sda1 ro<br>
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-2-386<br>
savedefault<br>
boot<br>
<br>
The savedefault command fails with an invalid command.<br>
<br>
Anyone know how I can get this server back up and running? It's only for a<br>
short time period?<br>
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Jon L. Miller MCNE CNE CCNA<br>
East Perth, WA 6004<br>
WA, Australia<br>
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