<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I am attempting to create a bootable copy of a running SELinux box on FC9. I think I am close but I am coming up with a kernel panic (text at end) Here are the steps and a brief reason. If anyone has any suggestions where I might have made a mistake or left something out a comment would be appreciated. The only requirements so far is that it has to be a disk to disk copy with no CD/DVD rescue involved and it has to use LVM Snapshot. The original looks like mbr on boot sector /dev/sda1 ext3 /boot /dev/sda2 LVM VolGroup00/LogVol00 is root VolGroup00/LogVol01 is swap This is what I am doing. • This seemed like an efficient way to dup the filesystems of the source to the target. sfdisk -d /dev/sda | sfdisk /dev/sdb •Duplicate the MBR dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdb1 bs=512k •Copy the entire /boot from a to b dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=664 count=1 •Add the /dev/sdb2 to LVM pvcreate /dev/sdb2 create the VolGroup for / vgcreate -s 32m VolGroup01 /dev/sdb2 Create the logical volume for / and swap lvcreate -l 1562 -n LogVol00 VolGroup01 lvcreate -l 62 -n LogVol01 VolGroup01 Create the swap area mkswap /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol01 Format the / filesystem mkfs -t ext3 /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol00 Create the snapshot lvcreate -L 20g -s -n snap /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 Mount the snapshot mount /dev/VolGroup00/snap /snapshot Mount the target mount /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol00 /target Rsync over the snapshot rsync -vXxpr /snapshot/* /target Unmount the snapshot umount /snapshot lvremove -f VolGroup00/snap At this point I fixed the initrd, the fstab and grub.conf on the target to point to VolGroup01 instead of VolGroup00. I would think this should be it. What I get is. root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ..... kerne /vmlinuz ...... Linux bzimage..... initrd / initrd .... Linux initrd Decompresing Linux ... Done Booting the kernel Red Hat nash version 6,0,52 starting Reading all physical volumes this make take awhile .... Found volume group VolGroup01 now active ERROR: exec of init (/sbin/init) failed failed!!!! No such file or directory ERROR: failed in exec of /bin/echo: No such file or directory a couple messages about not finding /bin/sleep Kernel Panic I am not really sure where this is getting to. I thought it was getting to the initrd but now I am not sure. Thanks Nick -- fedora-selinux-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-selinux-list@redhat.com">fedora-selinux-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-selinux-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-selinux-list</a></body></html>