I'm attempting to restore a server from a tar backup of filesystems, but have encountered an error on system bootup post restore. Backup information- Have the following information in flat files: sfdisk output df -k vgdisplay -v vg00 The following filesytems were tarred to a remote server: / /usr /var /opt Disk partions are as follows: /dev/hda1 - Linux /dev/hda2 - Swap /dev/hda3 - Linux /dev/hda4 - Linux LVM Restore procedure: -Boot from RHELv3 cd#1 -type in "linux rescue" at prompt -enable networking -Do not search for old filesystems -Repartition drive # sfdisk /dev/hda < hda.out -Run a vgscan # vgscan -Create physical volume # pvcreate /dev/hda4 -Create volume group # vgcreate -s 4 /dev/vg00 /dev/hda4 -Create Logical Volumes # lvcreate -l <PE count> -n <lvname> vg00 -Format partitions and logical volumes # mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda1 # mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda3 # mkfs.ext3 /dev/vg00/<lvname> -Create top level restore directory # mkdir /restore -Mount root partition # mount /dev/hda3 -t ext3 /restore -Change directories # cd /restore -Restore the data from remote server # ssh -n -l <username> <serverIP> -C "/bin/cat /backupdir/root.tgz" | tar zxpvf - -Mount remaining filesystems to be restored # mount /dev/hda1 -t ext3 /restore/boot # mount /dev/vg00/<lvname> -t ext3 /restore/<fsname> -Restore the remaining data # ssh -n -l <username> <serverIP> -C "/bin/cat /backupdir/<name>.tgz" | tar zxpvf - -Enter a chroot jail # chroot /restore -Install grub # grub-install /dev/hda # exit -Reboot the system On reboot, GRUB loads and shows the correct kernel. After the timeout period, it begins to load until it tries to mount the root filesystem. Below is the last few lines of the boot process before it errors out: --------------------------------------- Creating block devices Creating root device mkrootdev: label / not found Mounting root filesystem Mount: error 2 mounting ext3 pivotroot: pivot_root (/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed 2 umount /initrd/proc failed:2 Freeing unused kernel memory: 164k freed kernel panic: no init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. ------------------------------------------------ Any help on this would be appreciated! Thanks. -- -Shawn -Nemo me impune lacessit. Ne Obliviscaris.. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20051113/b635f47c/attachment.htm