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Re: Can't boot after harddrive replacement



On Mon, 12 May 2014, Steve Litt wrote:

Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 03:46:38 -0400
From: Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Can't boot after harddrive replacement
Resent-Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 07:46:54 +0000 (UTC)
Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org

On Mon, 12 May 2014 03:26:08 -0400
Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com> wrote:

On Sun, 11 May 2014 22:38:20 +0300
Itay Furman <itayf@fastmail.fm> wrote:

mount point /proc does not exist [Note: similar errors for few more
missing mount points such as /usr/local, /cache]

special device /dev/sda1 does not exist  [Note: that's the would be
/boot partition]

special device /dev/mapper/vg-home does not exist [Note:
would-be /home reside on a Logical Volume vg/home]

[Same error for the other file trees that reside on Logical Volumes]


OK, next test: Let's find out why the /dev/sd?? mounts didn't work.
What's the output of:

lsblk
sudo blkid

Note: If sudoers won't let you do blkid, just do it as root.

SteveT

IMPORTANT: I forgot to say that the preceding two commands should be
done after booting the live CD and chrooting to the supposed root
partition on the new drive.

SteveT

Hi Steve,

I had to abandon the process and reintroduce the old hard drive for the time being. So I could not follow up your advice in time.

I will come back to this as soon as I can permit my self to be computerless for few days...

Many thanks,
Itay


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