If you're cloning it into a virtual machine, is it VMWare? They have a nice bootable CD called VMWare Converter that will image a machine into a VM. I've only tried it on Windows boxes so far, but it's worth looking at.
-Scott On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Mike Bigalke <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ahh... Makes sense. > > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Robert Citek <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Virtual machine. - Robert >> >> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Mike Bigalke <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Out of curiosity, how did you capture that screen shot? With a >>> camera? Or does print screen work during boot? >>> >>> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 9:46 AM, David Dooling >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 07:49:19PM -0600, Robert Citek wrote: >>>>> How do I clone a system that uses LVM? >>>>> >>>>> I have an old system that has two drives (8 GB and 10 GB) which I used >>>>> LVM to spread several "partitions" across the two drives (sort of like >>>>> RAIDO). Now I'd like to take that system and clone it to a new >>>>> machine with a single 20 GB drive. I was able to create a single >>>>> partition and copy all the files to it, but when I try to boot it >>>>> kernel panics: >>>>> >>>>> Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. >>>>> >>>>> I tried init=/bin/bash, but still no luck. >>>>> >>>>> Here's a screenshot of what it looks like at bootup: >>>>> >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug/web/lvm.screenshot.png >>>> >>>> I would think you would need to update your grub device.map (typically >>>> /boot/grub/device.map) and possibly the grub menu.lst to reflect the >>>> face that you have the system on a physical hard drive rather than a >>>> software RAID. device.map should likely map (hd0) to /dev/hda (since >>>> your drive is only 20 GB, I presume it is IDE). >>>> >>>> -- >>>> David Dooling >>>> http://www.politigenomics.com/ >>>> >>>> > >>>> >>> >>> > >>> >> >> > >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
