FC10 does not boot when HDD moved to another machine

Frank Millman frank at chagford.com
Mon Dec 22 06:56:50 UTC 2008


Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
> 
> 	What does 
> 	
> 	rpm -qa --queryformat 
> "%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.{ARCH}\n"|grep kernel|sort
> 	
> 	return? 
> 	
> 	Also, what do you have in /etc/grub.conf? 
> 	
> Sorry. It is
> 
> rpm -qa --queryformat 
> "%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n" | grep kernel | sort 
> 

kernel-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686
kernel-2.6.27.7-134.fc10.i686
kernel-firmware-2.6.27.7-134.fc10.noarch
kerneloops-0.12-1.fc10.i386

As mentioned to Mikkel, /etc/grub.conf is a link to /boot/grub/grub.conf,
but there is no grub directory in /boot.

I cannot remember if there was one after installation, but I got the feeling
that a couple of things changed after I moved the HDD to the second machine
and selected 'Install/Upgrade'. I got the following message -

Warning: The partition table on device sda (ATA ST38410A 8213 MB) was
unreadable. To create new partitions it must be initialized, causing the
loss of ALL DATA on this drive. This operation will override any previous
installation choices about which drives to ignore.

I did not proceed past this point, but afterwards I noticed that the
contents of /etc/fstab had changed.

Before, it looked like this -

/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00  /  ext3  defaults  1  1
UUID=b6c62c5a-0afb-4258-a726-6a377a6f3b9e  /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 

Afterwards, it changed to this -

UUID=6e47e294-fc8d-4457-b1e9-03f68a57d0aa  /  ext3  defaults  1  1
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 
UUID=519e0658-aa0a-49a2-9b39-d80e92b0c838  swap  swap  defaults  0  0

I don't know if any of this is significant.

Thanks

Frank




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