Matthieu,
Matthieu Gaillet wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to restore a physical installation of Centos to a VMWare > virtual machine. > > I received the dreaded "Running: > grub-install-no-floppy-root-directory=/tmp/hd_img.QiFQFv /dev/sda > grub-probe: error: Cannot open '/boot/grub/devise_map' > /usr/sbin/grub-install: line 374: [: =: unary operator expected" error > message. This is a harmless error. Check this: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=513216 BTW, when you saved or restored the image, did you see any error messages other than the above one ? How about the image dir ? Could you please run: find /home/partimag/$YOUR_IMAGE -print (Replace $YOUR_IMAGE with your image name) then post the results ? Steven. > > Anyhow, when I try to boot the machine, I received a Kernel Panic : > > Volume group "VolGroup00" not found > Trying to resume form /dev/VolGroup/LogVol01 > Unable to access resume device > > (...) > > Mount : Could not find filesystem '/dev/root' > > (...) > > Kernel Panic - not syncing : Attempted to kill init! > > here is a screen capture of the console : > > > > The disk is formatted with a boot Linux partition, followed by a big > LVM partition : > > fdisk-l output on the *restored* machine : > > Disk /dev/sda: 134.2 GB, 134217728000 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 16317 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > Disk identifier: 0x000baed3 > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux > /dev/sda2 14 14593 117113850 8e Linux LVM > > The LVM volume itself is composed of the following logical volumes : > > pvdisplay output : > > --- Physical volume --- > PV Name /dev/sda2 > VG Name VolGroup00 > PV Size 111.69 GB / not usable 1018.00 KB > Allocatable yes (but full) > PE Size (KByte) 32768 > Total PE 3574 > Free PE 0 > Allocated PE 3574 > PV UUID HsETnF-XSTU-V5A4-Zkux-oBJm-JRAl-8mHoLd > > vgdisplay output : > > --- Volume group --- > VG Name VolGroup00 > System ID > Format lvm2 > Metadata Areas 1 > Metadata Sequence No 4 > VG Access read/write > VG Status resizable > MAX LV 0 > Cur LV 2 > Open LV 1 > Max PV 0 > Cur PV 1 > Act PV 1 > VG Size 111.69 GB > PE Size 32.00 MB > Total PE 3574 > Alloc PE / Size 3574 / 111.69 GB > Free PE / Size 0 / 0 > VG UUID pwaNUO-hXTM-LAdC-TUds-yyAq-ylm4-mM0jOP > > > lvdisplay output : > > --- Logical volume --- > LV Name /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 > VG Name VolGroup00 > LV UUID RpV3Ix-rLod-Idnm-mOdf-31kV-spSr-2Tdf03 > LV Write Access read/write > LV Status available > # open 1 > LV Size 111.19 GB > Current LE 3558 > Segments 1 > Allocation inherit > Read ahead sectors auto > - currently set to 256 > Block device 254:0 > --- Logical volume --- > LV Name /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 > VG Name VolGroup00 > LV UUID td59rA-cLl0-H2Ie-jOp0-A0Z2-4doJ-3PQ9ry > LV Write Access read/write > LV Status available > # open 0 > LV Size 512.00 MB > Current LE 16 > Segments 1 > Allocation inherit > Read ahead sectors auto > - currently set to 256 > Block device 254:1 > > > > Following the advices related to an analog problem (Giorgos) , I > mounted the LVM partition in order to edit the fstab file. > The contents of this file are the following : > > > /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1 > LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 > tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 > devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 > sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 > proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 > /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0 > > > I'm quite new to Linux, but cannot see anything wrong here... > > > For your info, I'm also posting the files grub.conf and menu.lst > > GRUB.CONF > > # grub.conf generated by anaconda > # > # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this > file > # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that > # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. > # root (hd0,0) > # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 > # initrd /initrd-version.img > boot=/dev/hdc > default=0 > timeout=5 > splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > hiddenmenu > title CentOS (2.6.18-128.1.10.el5) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 > initrd /initrd-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5.img > title CentOS (2.6.18-128.1.6.el5) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 > initrd /initrd-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5.img > title CentOS (2.6.18-128.1.1.el5) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 > initrd /initrd-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5.img > > MENU.LST > > # grub.conf generated by anaconda > # > # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this > file > # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that > # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. > # root (hd0,0) > # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 > # initrd /initrd-version.img > boot=/dev/hdc > default=0 > timeout=5 > splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > hiddenmenu > title CentOS (2.6.18-128.1.10.el5) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 > initrd /initrd-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5.img > title CentOS (2.6.18-128.1.6.el5) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 > initrd /initrd-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5.img > title CentOS (2.6.18-128.1.1.el5) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 > initrd /initrd-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5.img > > > > * > * > *Can anyone help me to make my restored CentOS boot on vmware ? * > > Thanks > > Matthieu > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Clonezilla-live mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clonezilla-live > -- Steven Shiau <steven _at_ nchc org tw> <steven _at_ stevenshiau org> National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan. http://www.nchc.org.tw Public Key Server PGP Key ID: 1024D/9762755A Fingerprint: A2A1 08B7 C22C 3D06 34DB F4BC 08B3 E3D7 9762 755A ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Clonezilla-live mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clonezilla-live
