FC10 does not boot when HDD moved to another machine

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Fri Dec 19 13:01:44 UTC 2008


Frank Millman wrote:
> 
> Still no luck, I am afraid. This is what I have done.
> 
> #chroot /mnt/sysimage.
> 
> 'uname -r' shows 2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i586
> 
> I ran 'mkinitrd -v /boot/test.img 2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i586'. I put the -v in
> to see what was happening, but it just returns to the prompt silently.
> 
I think that should be:

mkinitrd -v /boot/test.img 2.6.27.5-117.fc10

(no .586)

> #ls /boot shows nothing - I don't think it is mounted.
> 
easy fix - "mount /boot" after running chroot.

I am surprised that you did not get an error when it could not find
the kernel.

No modules available for kernel "2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i586"

Mikkel
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