Hello.
I don't know if you can give me this kind of support, but anyway, here it goes:
I recently virtualized an old linux server running Mandrake 9.1. It uses two scsi disks: The first one is the root filesystem, and the second contains /var.
I followed the tutorial for virtualizing a running server using clonezilla and everything went just fine.
In Proxmox I created two scsi disks, and cloned the two disks separately. I included the boot sector of the first one, because it contained LILO.
Here's the problem: When I start the VM, LILO loads ok, then starts to load linux, but when it comes to mounting the root filesystem it gives me this error:
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Usually that kind of error appears when the name of the boot partition is wrong on the LILO configuration or similar configuration issues, but that does not make sense here, because the running server has been running fine with the current configuration for a millenia (ok... just a few centuries) and I haven't touched anything of its configuration in a long time.
I booted the new VM with clonezilla, and I can mount the two disks and see all the files correctly. I also checked the disks for errors, just in case, but no success so far.
By the way, I'm running Proxmox 1.9
Any ideas?....
Thank you!
Martín
I don't know if you can give me this kind of support, but anyway, here it goes:
I recently virtualized an old linux server running Mandrake 9.1. It uses two scsi disks: The first one is the root filesystem, and the second contains /var.
I followed the tutorial for virtualizing a running server using clonezilla and everything went just fine.
In Proxmox I created two scsi disks, and cloned the two disks separately. I included the boot sector of the first one, because it contained LILO.
Here's the problem: When I start the VM, LILO loads ok, then starts to load linux, but when it comes to mounting the root filesystem it gives me this error:
Code:
Mounting root filesystem
mount: error 6 mounting ext3 flags
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 136k freed
Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernelUsually that kind of error appears when the name of the boot partition is wrong on the LILO configuration or similar configuration issues, but that does not make sense here, because the running server has been running fine with the current configuration for a millenia (ok... just a few centuries) and I haven't touched anything of its configuration in a long time.
I booted the new VM with clonezilla, and I can mount the two disks and see all the files correctly. I also checked the disks for errors, just in case, but no success so far.
By the way, I'm running Proxmox 1.9
Any ideas?....
Thank you!
Martín
