Trouble upgrading Hard disk

[mumbly_joe]

Hello,
New to the forum here. I tried searching and didn't come up with anything so here goes. I tried to upgrade my Hard disk by following the instructions in the mini how to. I think I followed it correctly except I am using GRUB instead of LILO like the How to talks about. I don't think this is the problem but maybe. So when I put in the new HD, the system starts booting but I get these messages:

Creating block devices
Creating root device
mkrootdev: label / not found
Mounting root filesystem
mount: error 2 mounting ext3
pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot, /sysroot/initrd) failed: 2
umount /initrd/proc failed: 2
Freeing unused memory: 212k freed
Kernel Panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to
kernel

I am using Red Hat 9.0 btw.

Thanks for any help, in the meantime I will keep looking!

[DerekKraan]

Did you change the location of your other hard drive? If it's not in the same place(as far as on the same IDE controller, and still either master/slave), then your kernel will fail to boot.

If you want to be able to boot(if this is the problem) then look closely at the output of your kernel for where it puts the new disc. Then you should remove the hard disc, make the nessecary changes to your grub.conf(ie, specifying where the disc will be when you start up next), then update your MBR(just call grub from the command line, I believe? I don't know how GRUB works), then shutdown, insert the drive, and start up again.