Clonezilla messed up Fedora 4 - Kernel Panic
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Hi
My system has multiple SCSI hard drives with Fedora Core 4 installed. I used Clonezilla to clone one of the the hard drives and after it cloned the drive, my system wouldn't boot and gave the following errors.
Scanning logical Volumes
Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
Found volume group "VolGroup01" using metadata type lvm2
Activating logical volumes
1 logical volume(s) in volume group "VolGroup01" now active
Creating root device
Mounting root filesystem
mount: error 6 mounting ext3
Switching to new root
ERROR opening /dev/console!!!!: 2
error dup'ing fd of 0 to 0
error dup'ing fd of 0 to 1
error dup'ing fd of 0 to 2
unmounting old /proc
unmounting old /sys
switchroot: mount failed: 22
Kernel Panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
I tried Fedora 4 rescue CD but it wouldn't mount the Linux partition.
Please advice how to fix this issue.
Thanks in advance.
GSingh
I guess this problem is in the initrd.
Did you mean the problem is in the source disk or target disk ?
If it's in the source disk, weird... Clonezilla did not touch your initrd... How come such an error...
I think you can try to use rescue disk, mount the original root partition, and chroot to that, then run update-initramfs to create the initrd again.
BTW, does anyone in this forum ever encounter this problem before ?
The problem is on source disk. I could never use LVM cloning feature of Clonezilla. It always complained about something and used dd to copy hard drives.
I tried using rescue disk but the rescue disk can't find any linux installation.
I checked using fdisk -l /dev/sda and I get
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 14 1106 8779522+ 8e Linux LVM