FC10 does not boot when HDD moved to another machine

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Frank Millman wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the reply, Mikkel.
> 
> I tried, but unfortunately I don't know enough to figure it out :-(
> 
> I ran chroot /mnt/sysimage. I read 'man mkinitrd', but I cannot work out
> what parameters to use. I tried 'mkinitrd -vf', but it just returned to the
> prompt silently. I rebooted, but nothing had changed.
> 
> I cannot see anything in /boot - it seems that it is not mounted, and I
> don't know how to mount it manually. /etc/fstab shows a UUID number.
> 
> It is not that important for me to get this working - I don't mind
> re-installing from scratch. However, it would be nice to know how to solve
> this problem for the future, in case it ever happens with live data
> involved. For example, a mother board could fail, but the HDD is intact, so
> you just want to move it to a new machine.
> 
> BTW, getting it to work off the old machine is not important, so a simple
> re-generation of the image is sufficient.
> 
> Any assistance will be appreciated.
> 
> Frank
> 
Well, if you were building for kernel 2.6.26.3-14.f8, you would run:

mkinitrd /boot/test.img 2.6.26.3-14.f8

Then you would have something like this in grub.conf (excuse the
line wrap):

title New Board
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.26.3-14.fc8 ro
root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
        initrd /test.img
title Fedora (2.6.26.3-14.fc8)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.26.3-14.fc8 ro
root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
        initrd /initrd-2.6.26.3-14.fc8.img

You your F10 kernel instead of the F8 one listed here. Make sure you
do it with the new motherboard.

Mikkel
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