mount could not find filesystem '/dev/root'

[Rudi Ahlers]

Hi,

I cloned a CentOS 5 installation to a new HDD, following these
instructions:
https://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/doc/03_Disk_to_disk_clone/advanced/05-advanced-param.php,
to be installed into a new server, but when I bootup, I get the following
error:

drive could not find filesystem '/dev/root'

So I booted into a CentOS installation CD, and gone into repair mode. The
drive was mounted in /mnt/sysimage, with an option to chroot it, which I
did.

Here's the HDD layout:

root@localhost ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 33 265041 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 34 12781 102398310 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 12782 17880 40957717+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 17881 30377 100382152+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 17881 18390 4096543+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 18391 30377 96285546 83 Linux

WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sdb'! The util fdisk
doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.

[root@localhost ~]# more /etc/fstab
LABEL=/1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/u /u ext3 defaults 1 2
LABEL=/pick01 /pick0 ext3 defaults 1 2
LABEL=/boot1 /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
LABEL=SWAP-ddf1_HSTp5 swap swap defaults 0 0

[root@localhost ~]# blkid
/dev/mapper/live-base: LABEL="Anaconda"
UUID="d468bb9b-7083-42e5-b04a-f4c428f1f927" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/mapper/live-rw: LABEL="Anaconda"
UUID="d468bb9b-7083-42e5-b04a-f4c428f1f927" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda1: LABEL="/boot1" UUID="2b671741-7495-4b56-9c11-50c10f4c3da4"
SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda3: LABEL="/1" UUID="c326ab94-fdb7-4151-b00e-468c162838d6"
SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda5: LABEL="SWAP-ddf1_HSTp5"
UUID="347624d1-cbf5-430e-874c-b3ba475a8292" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sda6: LABEL="/u" UUID="cdeceadf-c689-453e-8461-845fe10cab54"
SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="CentOS 7 x86_64" TYPE="iso9660"
/dev/sdb2: SEC_TYPE="msdos" LABEL="ANACONDA" UUID="9940-FF04" TYPE="vfat"
/dev/loop1: LABEL="Anaconda" UUID="d468bb9b-7083-42e5-b04a-f4c428f1f927"
SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
[root@localhost ~]# ls -l /dev/disk/by-label/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Nov 5 18:59 Anaconda -> ../../dm-1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Nov 5 18:59 ANACONDA -> ../../sdb2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Nov 5 18:59 CentOS\x207\x20x86_64 -> ../../sdb1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Nov 5 18:59 SWAP-ddf1_HSTp5 -> ../../sda5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Nov 5 18:59 \x2f1 -> ../../sda3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Nov 5 18:59 \x2fboot1 -> ../../sda1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Nov 5 18:59 \x2fu -> ../../sda6
[root@localhost ~]# ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Nov 5 18:59 2016-12-05-13-55-45-00 -> ../../sdb1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Nov 5 18:59 2b671741-7495-4b56-9c11-50c10f4c3da4
-> ../../sda1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Nov 5 18:59 347624d1-cbf5-430e-874c-b3ba475a8292
-> ../../sda5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Nov 5 18:59 9940-FF04 -> ../../sdb2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Nov 5 18:59 c326ab94-fdb7-4151-b00e-468c162838d6
-> ../../sda3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Nov 5 18:59 cdeceadf-c689-453e-8461-845fe10cab54
-> ../../sda6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Nov 5 18:59 d468bb9b-7083-42e5-b04a-f4c428f1f927
-> ../../dm-1

I am not sure how to fix this?

--
Kind Regards
Rudi Ahlers
Website: http://www.rudiahlers.co.za

[Rudi Ahlers]

Can anyone help me with this, please?

[Steven Shiau]

It's recommended to update the initrd after you restore the image to different hardware. You can refer to this:
https://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/CreateNewInitrd

Steven