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Mitel Software Applications / MAServer will no longer boot with Kernal Panic

« on: March 15, 2019, 11:17:00 PM »

Here is my situation very briefly.
MAServer was running but has a noisy WD hard drive. Figured I would be proactive and clone the drive before it got worse. Server is a Dell Optiplex workstation.
I clone WD harddrive with Clonezilla, copying the entire drive and boot sectors. I removed the cloned drive and figured I would just hang on to it in case the WD failed.
Returned everything back to the original way it was set up and proceeded to boot.
Then I get the following while booting:

md: created md126
md: bind<sda1>
md: running: <sda1>
raid1: raid set md126 active with 1 out of 2 mirrors
md: autorun DONE.
Scanning logical volumes
   Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a while...
Activating logical volumes
   Volume group "main" not found
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
Switching to new root and running init.
unmounting old /dev
unmounting old /proc
unmounting old /sys
switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory
Kernal panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

What in the world?!?! I swear I did nothing to the original HD image. Even the cloned drive boots the same way. Can someone guide me to what is going on here?
My gut feeling tells me the Kernal Panic is not the problem but rather a symptom of something happening much earlier.

Thanks