grub boot fails - sees wrong fs type
g
geleem at bellsouth.net
Fri Dec 12 00:56:38 UTC 2008
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greetings,
in another box, lost power supply due to 'bad caps syndrome'.
moved hard drives from old box to new box and ran 'cp -a' and 'rsync' to move
old systems files to backup drive.
reformatted partitions and ran 'cp -a' and 'rsync' to move old systems files
to new drive.
for moving distribs from backup drive to new drive.
+++
old: sys fs type size
hda1 sl5.4 ext3 journalized 2g50
hda2 swap 512m
- ----
hdb1 home ext3 journalized
- ----
hdc1 boot reiserfs journalized 78m0
hdc2 swap
hdc3 f8s ext3 journalized 4g20
hdc5 home reiserfs journalized 9g40
hdc6 f8 ext3 journalized 4g20
+++
new:
hda1 sl5.4 ext3 journalized 4g012
hda2 swap 512m0
hda5 home ext3 journalized 14g651
- ----
hdb1 boot reiserfs journalized 518m0
hdb2 swap 1g024
hdb5 f8s ext3 journalized 4g008
hdb6 ext3 journalized 4g008
hdb7 m2k6 reiserfs journalized 4g103
hdb8 m2k7.1 reiserfs journalized 4g103
hdb9 m2k8.1 reiserfs journalized 4g103
hdb10 home reiserfs journalized 4g103
- ----
hdc1 backup reiserfs journalized 117g237
+++
note: grub is setup to use hdb1 as initial boot partition, not boot drive.
note: hdb5/6 were 'reiserfs journalized', reformatted to 'ext3 journalized'.
in new box, sl5.4 and m2k's boot ok. f8s fails boot with error messages;
+++
Creating root device
Mounting root filesystem
Reiserfs: sdb5: warning; sh-2021 reiserfs_fill_super: cannot find reiserfs \
on sdb5
mount: error mounting /dev/root on /sysroot as reiserfs: invalid argument
Setting up other file systems
Setting up new root fs
Setup root: moving /dev failed: no such file or directory
No fstab.sys, mounting internal defaults
Setup root: error mounting /proc: no such file or directory
Setup root: error mounting /sys: no such file or directory
Switching to new root and running init
Unmounting old /dev
Unmounting old /proc
Unmounting old /sys
Switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory
Booting has failed
+++
read 'grub manual', 'man grub', and 'man grub-install', trying both to
correct. still fails.
it appears that grub is not getting hdb5 fs type correct.
what arguments do i need to pass to grub for it to get hdb5 correct?
or should i wipe hdb1 '/boot/grub' and reinstall?
peace out.
tc,hago.
g
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