[CentOS] Making a clone of an LVM-based EL5 install

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Thanks!

Your reply in conjunction with a google search that found the below 
website and resolved this completely!

http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/CreateNewInitrd

The final line being something like
mkinitrd --with sata_nv initrd-2.6.18-194.32.1.el5.img 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5

-Ben

On 03/19/2013 08:37 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> On 03/18/2013 03:36 PM, Lists wrote:
>> -) When booting from the newly imaged drive, it starts the boot just
>> fine but quits at:
>> ----------------------------
>> Activating logical volumes
>>      Volume group "VolGroup00" not found
> The only reason that I can think of that would cause this is an initrd
> that doesn't contain the driver for the whatever adapter the disk is
> attached to.
>
> Boot the rescue image and identify the adapter module.  When you've
> identified it, go back to the live system and make a new initrd using
> "--with <adapter_module>".  Don't replace the existing initrd, just
> create a new one in /boot.  If you then clone the disk, you should be
> able to boot the cloned disk to grub.  Edit the kernel definition and
> change the path to the initrd, selecting the one you've created for the
> new system.  It should boot properly, at which point you can replace the
> standard initrd path or fix grub's configuration file.
>
> ...and if you don't want to clone the system again, you can just boot
> the rescue environment, chroot to the sysimage, and make the initrd there.
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