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Hi,

I'm trying to restore a physical installation of Centos to a VMWare virtual machine.

I received the dreaded "Running: grub-install-no-floppy-root-directory=/tmp/hd_img.QiFQFv /dev/sda
grub-probe: error: Cannot open '/boot/grub/devise_map'
/usr/sbin/grub-install: line 374: [: =: unary operator expected" error message.

Anyhow, when I try to boot the machine, I received a Kernel Panic :

Volume group "VolGroup00" not found
Trying to resume form /dev/VolGroup/LogVol01
Unable to access resume device

(...)

Mount : Could not find filesystem '/dev/root'

(...)

Kernel Panic - not syncing : Attempted to kill init!



The disk is formatted with a boot Linux partition, followed by a big LVM partition :

fdisk-l output on the restored machine :

Disk /dev/sda: 134.2 GB, 134217728000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 16317 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000baed3

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 14 14593 117113850 8e Linux LVM

The LVM volume itself is composed of the following logical volumes :

pvdisplay output :

--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sda2
VG Name VolGroup00
PV Size 111.69 GB / not usable 1018.00 KB
Allocatable yes (but full)
PE Size (KByte) 32768
Total PE 3574
Free PE 0
Allocated PE 3574
PV UUID HsETnF-XSTU-V5A4-Zkux-oBJm-JRAl-8mHoLd

vgdisplay output :

--- Volume group ---
VG Name VolGroup00
System ID
Format lvm2
Metadata Areas 1
Metadata Sequence No 4
VG Access read/write
VG Status resizable
MAX LV 0
Cur LV 2
Open LV 1
Max PV 0
Cur PV 1
Act PV 1
VG Size 111.69 GB
PE Size 32.00 MB
Total PE 3574
Alloc PE / Size 3574 / 111.69 GB
Free PE / Size 0 / 0
VG UUID pwaNUO-hXTM-LAdC-TUds-yyAq-ylm4-mM0jOP


lvdisplay output :

--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
VG Name VolGroup00
LV UUID RpV3Ix-rLod-Idnm-mOdf-31kV-spSr-2Tdf03
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 1
LV Size 111.19 GB
Current LE 3558
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 256
Block device 254:0

--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01
VG Name VolGroup00
LV UUID td59rA-cLl0-H2Ie-jOp0-A0Z2-4doJ-3PQ9ry
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 0
LV Size 512.00 MB
Current LE 16
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 256
Block device 254:1



Following the advices related to an analog problem (Giorgos) , I mounted the LVM partition in order to edit the fstab file.
The contents of this file are the following :


/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0


I'm quite new to Linux, but cannot see anything wrong here...


For your info, I'm also posting the files grub.conf and menu.lst

GRUB.CONF

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
# initrd /initrd-version.img
boot=/dev/hdc
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title CentOS (2.6.18-128.1.10.el5)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5.img
title CentOS (2.6.18-128.1.6.el5)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5.img
title CentOS (2.6.18-128.1.1.el5)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5.img

MENU.LST

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
# initrd /initrd-version.img
boot=/dev/hdc
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title CentOS (2.6.18-128.1.10.el5)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5.img
title CentOS (2.6.18-128.1.6.el5)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5.img
title CentOS (2.6.18-128.1.1.el5)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5.img




Can anyone help me to make my restored CentOS boot on vmware ?

Thanks

Matthieu