I am running Red Hat 7.2 on a Dell Inspiron 8100. Everything is working great but my hard drive is failing. So I had my hard drive imaged on to another lap top hard drive using Ghost.

Now when I try to boot with the new hard drive all I get is GRUB GRUB GRUB across the screen forever if I let it.

So I created a boot disk from the old hard drive which still works if it is cold. And now booting with the boot disk and the new hard drive I get the following

Mounting /proc filesystem
Creating root device
Mounting root filesystem
EXT3-fs: journal inode is deleted
mount: error 22 mounting ext3
pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2
Freeing unused kernel memory: 220k freed
Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.

So I would really like to use my new hard drive but I am at a lost on how to get it to work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Two ideas. 1) Is the ghost your using able to do ext3, because the older versions of ghost were only able to do ext2 - it may have copied the data from ext3 to ext2. This would explain the panic while attempting to load the disk.

2) If the disk is sufficiently different from the previous drive, it may be worth installing new, and then pulling the data later.

Good luck,
Gary Allen Vollink