fedora 9 and swapping motherboards

Itamar - IspBrasil itamar at ispbrasil.com.br
Sun Oct 12 21:41:54 UTC 2008


boot with recue disk and re-create the initrd

On 10/12/2008 6:33 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> I have a head scratcher here.  I was trying to swap motherboards on a
> clean F9 x86_64 install.  The system was updated to the current yum
> levels before the mobo swap.  Attempting to boot got me through grub,
> but when it came time to mount the root FS for the first time it told
> me that the Volume Group couldn't be found.  This is a disk that boots
> f9 without any problems on the old motherboard.  Booting with a rescue
> disk on the new motherboard I can see and mount the Volume Group just
> fine.  I'm at a loss why the rescue disk can see the volume group, but
> the normal boot sequence can't.
>
> This is on the x86_64 mobo that runs F9 just fine if I temporarily
> install a scratch disk and install F9 on that.  It is just the f9 disk
> that was installed by the old mobo that gives problems.  Weird.  Can
> anyone shed some light on this puzzler?
>
> -wolfgang
>    





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