Booting image of fc2.

[huw]

I have put an image of fc2 (created with partimage under knoppix 5.1.1) from my old laptop onto my new machine but it doesn't boot. Immediately it only gives "kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (0,0)."

I have changed fstab and even tried creating a new initrd on knoppix using the modules from the appropriate kernel.

My grub.conf is:

title Fedora Core 2 (2.6.10)
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.771_FC2 ro root=/dev/sda6 rhgb quiet
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.10-1.771_FC2.img

and fdisk -l gives:

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System (OS)
/dev/sda1 * 1 12748 102398278+ 7 HPFS/NTFS (latest XP)
/dev/sda2 12749 15935 25599577+ 83 Linux (fc6 /)
/dev/sda3 15936 17847 15358140 83 Linux (fc6 /home)
/dev/sda4 17848 30401 100840005 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 17848 18102 2048256 82 Linux swap / Solaris
*** /dev/sda6 18103 18931 6658911 83 Linux (fc2 /) ***
/dev/sda7 18932 19249 2554303+ 83 Linux (fc2 /home)
/dev/sda8 19250 20779 12289693+ 7 HPFS/NTFS (old XP)
/dev/sda9 20780 23966 25599546 7 HPFS/NTFS (empty)

I have been searching for ages for suggestions but haven't had any luck. My new disk is sata and my old laptop was ide but I'm still not sure how much this matters (I have changed fstab and theres no labels in it). e2label shows both fc6 and fc2 are labelled "/" but now I've removed all mentions of labels (including blkid.tab) I don't suppose this matters. Another thing that probably doesn't matter is that on my laptop /boot for fc2 was in its own partition and now its in /dev/sda6/boot.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Cheers Huw

[lazlow]

The older kernels did not have sata support bilt in. My best suggestion is to upgrade to FC6.

Lazlow

[huw]

Thanks for the reply but I am using fc6. I did a lot with fc2 (code, servers, etc) and want to be able to access it on my new machine and not have to resort to my old and very slow laptop. Is there anyway I can get it working on a sata drive.

[lazlow]

The easiest way would be to borrow a ide drive, install on it, then add the sata drivers. After you got you sata access all up and happy, you would transfer everything over to the sata drive and remove the ide drive. Any way you look at it you will need to have the sata drivers available to the machine during boot up. I know there were a lot of threads on doing this with FC5 as it was the first release after sata became popular. Are there modern kernels available for FC2 (2.6.19 or something)?

Good Luck
Lazlow

[huw]

Thanks a lot for the help. I'll give a go and reply in a few days about how it works out.