[Cialug] virtualbox

[Paul Gray]

On 09/19/2011 07:27 AM, Dave Hala Jr wrote:
> I'm running the current version of virtualbox on a Centos 6 host. I'm
> trying to start a rhel3 guest. Its starts to boot and I get the
> following errors:
>
> mkrootdev: label / not found
> kernel panic no init found
>
> I'm assuming this means it cant find any of my drive partitions. When I
> created the guest, I rebooted the server in single user mode, dd'ed the
> drive then did a VirtualBoxManage convertfromraw to create the vdi
> image.
>
> Anyone have any thoughts on how to fix this?

Did you dd the drive or the partitions?  If you just did the partitions, 
you'll need to use e2label for the partitions again.

This should be "bypass-able" by simply editing the grub entry, changing 
ROOT=LABEL=/ to ROOT=/dev/sdXN, where X and N are the appropriate disk 
and partition for your setup.

Hope that helps.

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