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kernel panic error: no init found



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David Kramer wrote:

| Dave Peters wrote:

|> pivotroot: pivot_root (/sysroot, /sysroot/initrd)
|> failed: 2

| Without any other information, I am guessing that the SCSI address of
| the new drive is different than the SCSI address of the old drive (or
| are on a different controller), so the device specifications in the
| /boot directory don't match the device name of the new disk.

Note that in more recent Redhat releases, they are moving towards using
the filesystem LABELs to locate a root to avoid this kind of thing.

Jon.
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