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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