>>> >> Maybe I should explain exactly what I did because perhaps I am doing it >> all wrong and thats why I am having so many issues.. >> >> I have a Physical Centos box (we will call it PC) and I want to turn it >> into a Virtual Centos box (VC).. I created the virtual machine in the >> VMWare server console and then installed VC with a minimum Centos4 >> install.. I then went to PC and ran rsync with the various switches to >> copy the entire filesystem from PC to VC across the network.. I excluded >> /dev, /proc and /sys.. I also used the --delete option to remove any >> files that exited on VC that were no longer on PC.. Then before >> rebooting VC I checked fstab and grub.conf files to make sure they were >> correct.. Finally I restarted VC and booted from CD1 in rescue mode to >> run grub-install to get the boot sector and start up working right..Then >> rebooted VC.. It starts up and then freaks when trying to sort out the >> LVM volumes.. >> >> The difference between PC and VC is that in VC I have decided to use a >> scsi drive (apparently better performance) and in PC its an IDE and I >> have made the virtual drive bigger.. I have tried running PC with and >> without LVM (in other words using normal formatted partitions) and it >> seems to have the same problem.. So even when no LVM volumes exist its >> still looking for them.. >> >> Obviously I have both systems live an running when I am doing the data >> transfer.. There are no errors but would this cause a major issue? >> >> How do you migrate form physical to virtual? >> >> Thanks.. > Going from an IDE drive to a SCSI drive means you will have to make an initial > ramdisk on the new system (initrd). The scsi drivers are modules in the > kernel, and without an initrd with the drivers included and enabled, you can't > mount the root to finish booting. > Look here for a fix; > http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_80_3902.shtm > > I don't see how an emulated scsi drive will perform any better than an > emulated IDE drive, but I suppose it is possible. > Scott, Thanks for the link and the input.. That seems to have solved the problem.. I wasn't aware that scsi needed the initrd generated.. To tell the truth I still don't know exactly what it does (my linux skills are pretty limited) but its working.. :)