Issue moving Mandrake 10 box to different machine

[Red Squirrel]

I'm trying to move a Mandrake 10 box from one vm server to another (vmware server to ESX). I get a kernel panic right when it boots. I used a rescue CD to ch ange hda to sda where required. It uses lilo and not grub, and I can't seem to find the /boot partition. There is a /boot folder on the main partition but it's not really what i would expect to see on a typical system.

I also found a /etc/lilo.conf file and it says to ru n lilo after editing the file, so is there another step i need to do? I tried to actually type lilo but nothing happened. I tried lilo /dev/sda and it crapped the mbr.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Nothinman]

I can't seem to find the /boot partition. There is a /boot folder on the main partition but it's not really what i would expect to see on a typical system.

Why? There's no problems with /boot being part of the / filesystem as long as you don't need anything special to get to it like LVM, software RAID, etc.

I also found a /etc/lilo.conf file and it says to ru n lilo after editing the file, so is there another step i need to do? I tried to actually type lilo but nothing happened. I tried lilo /dev/sda and it crapped the mbr

You need to run lilo as root after editing /etc/lilo.conf so it can remap the kernels and initrds. It's been a long time since I've seen lilo but I believe it should print out the kernel names when you run it.

 

[Red Squirrel]

When I run lilo think it tries to run the one that's on the live CD so it fails. How do I go about doing a chroot? I did it before and it was just "chroot foldername" or "chroot foldername path/to/shell" but it's not working. I just get "/bin/zsh" no such file or directory" if I specify the shell I get a segfault. I'm using System Rescue CD. I tried knopix but it wont boot. Just sits at a black screen.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
When I run lilo think it tries to run the one that's on the live CD so it fails. How do I go about doing a chroot? I did it before and it was just "chroot foldername" or "chroot foldername path/to/shell" but it's not working. I just get "/bin/zsh" no such file or directory" if I specify the shell I get a segfault. I'm using System Rescue CD. I tried knopix but it wont boot. Just sits at a black screen.

man 8 chroot

 

[Red Squirrel]

Says No entry in manual for section 8. From what I recall though just using chroot [foldername] should work. So I really don't know why it's not working. But if I can manage to chroot think I may be able to get some stuff to work.

This is mandrake 10 so it's hard to find given it's age, but I think I may of found an ISO, downloading now. I'll check to see if it has a repair option.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
Says No entry in manual for section 8. From what I recall though just using chroot [foldername] should work. So I really don't know why it's not working. But if I can manage to chroot think I may be able to get some stuff to work.

This is mandrake 10 so it's hard to find given it's age, but I think I may of found an ISO, downloading now. I'll check to see if it has a repair option.

Maybe your linux puts it in the wrong section. Try man 1 chroot (where it is on Centos 😕 ). Reading through that man page it's pretty useless though.

If you weren't using the Mandrake disk in the first place, I'm not surprised you get segfaults when running it correctly.

 

[Nothinman]

chroot probably tries to use your current shell by default, which sounds like it's zsh and that's not installed in the other installation. chroot <directory> /bin/bash should work, if it's giving you a segfault then you might have other problems to deal with first.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Yeah tried all of that. And chroot does not seem any more complicated based on the doc I did find.

Turns out we don't need that VM moved anymore so I just deleted it.