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| Author: | Girkers [ Wed Mar 07, 2012 7:08 am ] |
| Post subject: | Replaced Motherboard now can't boot [Solved] |
I had the motherboard in my FE/BE die on my today and I have replaced it however the system will now not boot. When I boot the system without the splash screen it drops to ramfs and I get the error: Code: Attempting to create root device '/dev/disk/by-uuid/UUID'(actual drive UUID) ERROR: Failed to parse block device name for '/dev/disk/by-uuid/UUID' unknown ERROR: roots fs cannot be detected. Try using the rootfstype= kernel paramater. Waiting for devices to settle...done. It then goes on to try and create the device that is missing but then fails and drops me to ramfs$ I know that the easy solution would have been to do a backup on the old system and then just do an upgrade, however this is not a option as whilst all the hardware is the same, the Motherboard is not. The old motherboard is dead. Looking at the modules that load in the kernel, they are: Code: pata_acpi libata scsi_mod The problem I have identified is that the kernel does not have the required driver to mount the boot drive. The boot drive is an IDE and I have two data drives that are SATA, I have tried turning off the SATA in the BIOS however this has no effect. I know I need to have the correct driver built into the kernel, however I have no idea how to identify the correct module and then no clue as to how to get it into the kernel. One thought is to put a temp Hard drive into the system and load a clean install of LnHES 6.04 (current version I am using) and then copy across the initrd.img. Nothing to lose I will give that a go, any other suggestions please feel free to comment. Thanks |
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| Author: | Girkers [ Wed Mar 07, 2012 10:21 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Replaced Motherboard now can't boot |
I can attest that my evil plan worked, what I did was using another drive install 6.04 and then once installed I used a Knoppix CD and a USB drive and copied off the file /boot/kernel26.img. I then copied that file back onto my original drive, after renaming it and then I editted grub boot option to point to the new file and the system booted. I was then able to do a backup and an upgarde to 6.04. The upgrade, whilst it worked, the hardware did not work as such, so I then did an upgrade to 7.2 and the system is back up and running again, with one slight hitch which I will start a new thread on. |
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