Lutz
18th March 2006, 06:34 PM
I had a FC4 installation and wanted to upgrade my single hard disk. Instead of going the hard way (adding a new disk to my volume group, moving the data, and removing the obsolete disk) I wanted simply to copy my data to a normal partioned hard disk. In order to do so I followed this link: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/index.html. Instead of preparing the new disk manually I installed a minimal FC4 system on the new disk first (when it was attached as single hard disk to my system) and I didn't copy the /sys and /proc folder. (I copied every other folder from the old to the new disk when both disks were installed). I learned the hard way how to correct fstab, how to enable swap, and how to correct grub.config.
The only thing that I cannot solve is how to overcome the search for volume groups when booting Fedora. Here come the relevant messages when Fedora is booting, right after the penguin has been shown:
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"
ERROR: /bin/lvm exited abnormally with value 5! (pid 401)
INIT: version 2.85 booting
Further the boot process continues normally. It is clear that by copying the files from the old disk to the new disk I copied also some LVM configuration scripts. I've deleted them from fstab and grub, but don't know where else I have to wipe them out.
Alternatively, I have my data in a /home partition. I could install FC5 from scratch (once it is there) and hopefully the problem is solved by then. But I would prefer to fix it now and to learn something.
Thanks for reading!
....Lutz
The only thing that I cannot solve is how to overcome the search for volume groups when booting Fedora. Here come the relevant messages when Fedora is booting, right after the penguin has been shown:
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"
ERROR: /bin/lvm exited abnormally with value 5! (pid 401)
INIT: version 2.85 booting
Further the boot process continues normally. It is clear that by copying the files from the old disk to the new disk I copied also some LVM configuration scripts. I've deleted them from fstab and grub, but don't know where else I have to wipe them out.
Alternatively, I have my data in a /home partition. I could install FC5 from scratch (once it is there) and hopefully the problem is solved by then. But I would prefer to fix it now and to learn something.
Thanks for reading!
....Lutz
