Re: CentOS 5.3 , Kernel Panic - mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root'

Hi

I am impressed how deep you have dived.

There is a line in grub.conf:

#(removed by Converter)        kernel /memtest86+-1.65 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet

While fstab reads:

/dev/sdb1

/

ext3

defaults,noatime

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Is the source machine's root volume a logical one? If yes, and LVM has been preserved during conversion, I suppose this could cause such an effect.

Besides the new grub entry is:

title CentOS (2.6.18-128.7.1.el5)

        root (hd0,0)

        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.7.1.el5 ro root=/dev/sdb1 rhgb quiet

        initrd /initrd-2.6.18-128.7.1.el5.img

the 'root' should point to the /boot partition, probably /dev/sda1, which by the way is not present in fstab

Edit /etc/fstab while in rescue mode so that / gets mounted on the logical volume, and /boot to /dev/sda1, and run grub-install again.

HTH

Plamen