FC10 does not boot when HDD moved to another machine
Frank Millman
frank at chagford.com
Mon Dec 15 15:00:20 UTC 2008
Hi all
I am trying to install FC10 on a desktop machine. I can install in text
mode, but I cannot get it to run X. I posted a query to this list a couple
of days ago, but got no response.
I found a thread in the Fedora Forum on the subject -
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=207320
I followed the advice of adding the following line to the "Device" section
of xorg.conf -
Option "AccelMethod" "XAA"
It worked, and I thought the problem was solved. Then I found that if I
switch from tty1 (graphical) to tty2 (text), then switch back again, the
machine freezes and I have to press reset. I tried several times, and the
same happened each time.
I am guessing that the new Intel video driver is flakey, so I tried swapping
hard drives with a similar machine running Windows Server 2000. Windows runs
perfectly in the old machine, FC10 will not boot in the new machine. I get
the following error message -
Volume group "VolGroup00" not found
Unable to access resume device (/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01)
mount: error mounting /dev/root on /sysroot as ext3: No such file or
directory
I swapped hard drives back again to ensure it had not got corrupted, and it
boots fine in the original machine.
If I boot off the dvd and select Rescue Mode, it boots and says that it has
loaded the installed system under /mnt/sysimage. I can see the contents of
/mnt/sysimage, but I have no idea what, if anything, to change to enable it
to boot up normally. If I just exit, it shuts downs cleanly, but I get the
same error if I try to reboot off the hard drive.
The HDD is a standard IDE drive with a standard IDE connector on the
motherboard.
For the record, the drive is a Seagate ST38410A, 8.4gb. The motherboard in
the machine that was used to build FC10 is a Gigabyte GA-8LD533. The
motherboard in the machine that fails to boot FC10 is a Gigabyte GA-851MLH.
The spec of the IDE connector on the former is UltraDMA33/ATA66/ATA100. The
spec on the latter is the same except it also has ATA133.
I confess this does not mean anything to me, but it might mean something to
someone reading this.
Here is some more info, as suggested by someone on comp.os.linux.setup -
1. #fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 8619 MB 8619752960 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1047 cylinders
Units = cyliinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x838ccac3
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 25 200781 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 26 1048 8217247+ 8e Linux LVM
2. #cat /mnt/sysimage/etc/fstab
/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
If the worst comes to the worst I can re-install from scratch, but that does
not fill me with confidence. Any suggestions will be much appreciated.
Many thanks
Frank Millman
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