Problem Mounting Root

quackweb

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Hello,

On one of our machines, the motherboard recently failed so we replaced it. Now when we try to boot the machine we get this error:

Mounting root filesystem
Mount: error 2 mounting ext3
Pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/init.d) failed: 2
Umount /init/proc failed: 2
Freeing unused kernel memory: 180K freed
Kernel Panic: no init found.

We are running Fedora Core 2 on this machine. My question is, if we upgrade to Core 3, will that solve this problem? We do not want to format the drive or lose any information on the drive itself. Would this be possible by doing the upgrade? Any advice or an alternative solution is greatly appreciated!
 
I would suggest putting a new drive in the machine, then mounting this as a slave to copy the data to the new drive (search forums for a list of dirs that need to be copied) - thats the most reliable way.

Joe
 
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