Boot fails after change of motherboard (using LVM)

Volker Englisch Volker at englisch.us
Fri Oct 13 13:21:53 UTC 2006



     Volker Englisch

mailto:Volker at Englisch.us    (h)


On 10/13/2006 04:01 AM Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 22:02 -0400, Volker Englisch wrote:
>> On 10/12/2006 12:14 PM Rob Andrews wrote:
>>> You can get the same effect with the mkinitrd(8) tool.
>>>
>>> mkinitrd /boot/initrd-<version> <version>
>>>
>>> (where version is, for example, 2.6.18-1.2759.fc6)
>>
>> This sounded like a great idea and I had hoped it to solve my problem. 
>> Unfortunately it didn't work and I am still getting the same error 
>> message after restarting the system
>>      Red Hat nash version 4.2.15 starting
>>       Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while ...
>>       No volume groups found
>>       Unable to find volume group "VolGroup00"
>>
>> Is there anything else I could possibly try?
> 
> When the system boots, is it actually detecting the presence of the hard
> disks?

Yes.

> Can you tell which sata controller module is loaded when the rescue disk
> is booted? (run lsmod and look for anything with sata in it)

It's sata_via.

> Once you've found the sata modules in use, edit the /etc/modprobe.conf
> of the installed system to ensure that it has a scsi_hostadapter line
> for each sata module. For instance, I have:
> 
> alias scsi_hostadapter sata_sil24
> alias scsi_hostadapter1 sata_nv

I have two identical SATA disks.  Would I need to enter
   alias scsi_hostadapter sata_via

to the modprobe.conf or
   alias scsi_hostadapter sata_via
   alias scsi_hostadapter1_sata_via

Volker




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