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

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.
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> ...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.

This latter is what I'd recommend doing.

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