ClearFoundation

I have ClearOS installed on a raid card but not in an array. I would like to move it off the raid card and onto the onboard sata. If i disconnect all other drives and have the drive with ClearOS plugged into sata0 it halfway through the loading process and the stops at:

Waiting for driver initialization.
Scanning and configuring dmraid supported devices
Creating root device.
Mounting root filesystem
Mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root'
Setting up other filesystems.
Setting up new root fs
setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory
no fstab.sys, mounting internal defaults
setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory
setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory
Swithcing to new root and running init.
unmounting old /dev
unmounting old /proc
unmounting old /sys
switchroot: mount failed: no such file or directory
kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

What do i need to change to get it to boot correctly?

Thanks,

On a raid card ,but not in an array ? I suspect you're using a 'fake' raid. What's the raid card / controller you're using ?

Yes, its an LSI technologies 4 port sata/sas raid controller card. Im at work right now so I dont know which model it is. I am trying to move the boot drive off the raid card and onto the onboard sata ports.

Either way you need to use some imaging software to do that ,and another opertaing system (preferably a 'livecd') that contains the drivers of that raid controller.
Then you're able to move the disk from the raid instance to any other disk (sata.other raid,etc.) .

The difficult part is to adapt the OS installed to make sure it's reading the correct device ,and also to adapt the Grub loader so that it'll search for the file located on the disk connected to the sata controller.

A bit of googling gave me some answers :

conshell.net/wiki/index.php/Linux_P2V

Here it explains how to migrate a physical disk to a vm instance , but it boils down to the same.

Make sure you create a proper backup before trying anything.
How to make a backup with clonezilla : linuxgravity.com/creating-and-restoring-...-disk-with-clonzilla

Hope this helps.

Thanks It did help....make the decision to just reinstall the OS lol. I was looking for a reason to try 6.2 anyways. I did get 6.2 installed but it would not start the Graphic interface. I am not savy enough yet to figure it out quickly and I need to get this server up and running so its back to 5.2 for now.

The problem is that your changing drive controller. You should probably read through this thread where I failed to advise Hans but Tim succeeded when Han's replaced his motherboard www.clearfoundation.com/component/option...limitstart,50/#35253

Hence why I now install clearOS in VM instead. Broken hardware ,moving to new hardware ? => no problem. Copy the virtual disks (files) and settings to the new situation ,and it's fixed.
As a bonus if the system is powerfull enough ,add other vm's (after adding an extra network card) to it too. Other vm's like zoneminder , joomla installation ,etc. . Make a daily backup of the vm's and you'll have system that can match highly priced sla's