Issues booting after loading GHOST image...

[vmantunes]

I used Symantec Ghost 6.51 to image a box, which has a 4GB drive, with a good version of RedHat Linux 7.2. I made sure to check the Image Disk option (is similar to Image All switch, but also copies boot track like Image Boot, extended partition tables and unpartitioned space on the disk. "-id") in the Image/Tape tab in Options.

That image was multicast onto a MS Win2000 Server box, which is acting as the multicast server. I dumped the new .gho file of Linux onto a new box, which has a 6GB drive, and tried to boot up. Not happening, the new box just stops booting up at this point:

linux multicast router 0.06 plus pim-sm
net4: unix domain sockets 1.0/smp for linux net4.0.
ramdisk: compressed image found at block 0
freeing initrd memory: 441k freed
vfs: mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
red hat nash version 3.2.6 starting
loading scsi_mod module
scsi subsystem driver revision: 1.00
loading sd_mod module
loading aic7xxx module
/lib/aic7xxx.o: init_module: no such device
hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid io or irq parameters
error: /bin/insmod exited abnormally!
loading jbd module
journalled block device driver loaded
loading ext3 module
mounting /proc filesystem
creating root device
mounting root filesystem
mount: error 19 mounting ext3
pivotroot: picot_root (/sysroot, /sysroot/initrd) failed: 2
freeing unused kernel memory: 220k freed
kernel panic: no init found. try passing init= option to kernel.

Please help. What should I do to fix this issue?

[mdwatts]

I have never used Ghost. Drive Image I have used back when I was still using ext2 and not ext3 or ReiserFS. Never had any problems restoring a image.

I'm not sure what would have caused the errror. Does Symantec have anything on their support site about using Ghost and Linux?

Try a Google for Linux (see my sig) search for 'kernel panic: no init found' and see if any of the results pertain to your problem.

[Sastraxi]

Do you need to unghost it? Or is that "dumping"?

[vmantunes]

Thanks to all those who gave input.

I actually scrapped the first idea I had and just added the 6GB hard drive to the RedHat Linux 7.2 box which has 4GB (now that makes 10GB). I followed the NHF on Adding a Hard Drive in Linux (http://linuxnewbie.org/nhf/Hardware/Adding_a_Hard_Drive_in_Linux.html) almost to a tee and I'm now up and running (no snags).

I believe the reason the first idea didn't work and I received this error:

kernel panic: no init found. try passing init= option to kernel.

was because the hard drive I imaged with Symantec Ghost is SCSI and the hard drive I was going to "dump" the .gho file to (or image; whatever you want to call it) is IDE. In order to do this /etc/lilo.conf needs to be altered so that certain parameters are set in order to properly point the root device (The Linux Kernel HOWTO (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO-2.html)).

This new (at least for me it is) OS is awesome. I can't remember the last time I spent so much time trying intensively to learn something. What a great challenge!!!