Post Clonezilla image restore issue
We have an old Dell PE860 server that has hosted a small portion or our website for years. It's running CentOS 2.6.18 (yes it's that old) & Apache. It had a hardware controlled RAID1 setup, until a several weeks ago, that failed. To get us back up and limping along, I just unplugged & bypassed the RAID controller and changed the BIOS to where it just basically thinks it's a single drive PC: boots straight to the single drive. Due to the advanced age of the server, we purchased a new Dell PE R330, also with hardware RAID1, and now we want to move everything from the old box to the new one.
I came in over the weekend and took an image of the old setup, intending to push it to the new server. I thought I could do this since it's a hardware RAID setup, and all it should see is the one virtual drive... Everything seemed to go fine, as it did the restore image process with no errors, however upon starting the new server, after flashing the CentOS splash screen, I get the following as my last few in the boot sequence:
....
Reading all physical volumes... This may take a while...
No volume groups found
Volume group "VolGroup00" not found
Trying to resume from /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01
Unable to access resume device (/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01)
mount could not find filesystem "/dev/root"
...
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attemted to kill init!
Any ideas on what could cause all of this, since this should have been an image of a working setup?? Thanks.
I came in over the weekend and took an image of the old setup, intending to push it to the new server. I thought I could do this since it's a hardware RAID setup, and all it should see is the one virtual drive... Everything seemed to go fine, as it did the restore image process with no errors, however upon starting the new server, after flashing the CentOS splash screen, I get the following as my last few in the boot sequence:
....
Reading all physical volumes... This may take a while...
No volume groups found
Volume group "VolGroup00" not found
Trying to resume from /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01
Unable to access resume device (/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01)
mount could not find filesystem "/dev/root"
...
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attemted to kill init!
Any ideas on what could cause all of this, since this should have been an image of a working setup?? Thanks.
Network Admin
But if it's hardware controlled RAID, via a dedicated RAID controller, and NOT software RAID, why would the OS need RAID drivers? It automatically sees it as just a single 500GB drive up on booting. I would understand it needing drivers if it was a software based RAID controlled by the OS, but that is not the case: the OS has no clue it's a RAID array.
You are mixing hardware and software RAIDs. Software RAID is done with OS tools. Thus it only emulates the RAID on software (OS) level. It does not need some driver then to support the RAID controller.
In case of hardware RAID controller the OS needs first of all a proper driver for this RAID controller which helps reading the configurations done on RAID level.
Software RAID done on higher level and hardware RAID is done on deeper level - just to make it simple.
Hardware RAID controller almost always requires a driver for OS if it is not already includied in kernel compilation.
In case of hardware RAID controller the OS needs first of all a proper driver for this RAID controller which helps reading the configurations done on RAID level.
Software RAID done on higher level and hardware RAID is done on deeper level - just to make it simple.
Hardware RAID controller almost always requires a driver for OS if it is not already includied in kernel compilation.