might be worthwhile to boot knoppix and see if vgscan works that way. be sure to try it on the "good" machine too, just as a baseline.
jason On Tuesday 04 May 2004 10:07, Ron Joffe wrote: > So here is the task: > > Clone an existing machine. Sounds rather straight forward. The issue > is that I'm cloning from ide to SCSI and LVM is involved. Lilo is the > boot loader. I think I have most everything correct, but when I boot > the cloned machine, vgscan is not able to locate the volume group > (where the root partition is stored), and therefor mount /. > > Here is my configs: > > Initial machine: > Dell Poweredge 400SC > 40GB IDE Drive > SuSE Enterprise 8 > Partitions: > /dev/hda1 - 50MB /boot partition > /dev/hda2 - 2GB Swap partition > /dev/hda3 - 36GB LVM partition > volume1 - LVM Volume Group > /dev/Volume1/Root LVM Logical volume for / > > Clone recipient: > Dell Poweredge 600SC > 73GB SCSI Drive > > So here is the methodology: > 1. Boot clone using a rescue disk > 2. on Colone fdisk /dev/sda and create the following partitions: > /dev/sda1 - 50MB Linux partition > /dev/sda2 - 2GB Swap partition > /dev/sda3 - 36GB Linux LVM partition > 3. Clone the partition data from the Initial machine to the clone > machine using dd over ssh for both /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda3 > 4. Run vgscan and vgchange to activate the newly cloned volume group > 5. mount the new root partition and chroot to it > 6. Adjust the /etc/lilo.conf file > 7. Adjust the /etc/fstab file > 8. mk_initrd and run lilo > > When I boot, vgscan is unable to locate the volume group volume1. > > Here is the lilo config file: > > boot = /dev/sda > change-rules > reset > read-only > menu-scheme = Wb:kw:Wb:Wb > lba32 > prompt > timeout = 80 > message = /boot/message > > image = /boot/vmlinuz > label = linux > root = /dev/volume1/root > vga = 791 > initrd = /boot/initrd > > image = /boot/vmlinuz.shipped > label = failsafe > root = /dev/volume1/root > vga = 791 > initrd = /boot/initrd.shipped > append = "ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off vga=normal nosmp maxcpus=0 > disableapic 3" > optional > > Here is the fstab file: > > /dev/sda1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 > /dev/sda2 swap swap pri=42 0 0 > /dev/volume1/root / reiserfs defaults 1 1 > > devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 > 0 0 > proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 > usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs noauto 0 0 > > /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 > /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0 > > > > Any ideas, suggestions, things to try? > > Thanks, > > Ron -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
