Hi, I'm trying to clone an existing Fedora install, just a / partition and a /boot partition, both ext4. I use rsync, # rsync -C -x -u -a -v -A -X /mnt/old/ /mnt/new to clone both partitions from a running Fedora. I then clean up the /etc/fstab and /boot/grub2/grub.cfg by changing the UUIDs of the / and boot partitions. Formerly, that would be enough. I would run mkconfig to find the new installs from an existing Fedora, and boot into them from the grub menu of that existing install. That failed at switch root. Research found that the initramfs is now hostonly, so will not boot on a different root. I generated a new initramfs using dracut with --no-hostonly on the existing / old install, and copied it to the new /boot. Then altered the new grub.cfg to use that as the initramfs, ran mkconfig in the existing / old install to pick up the change, and rebooted. Still not working, though it now fails because systemd kills itself after switch root. And hangs because it can't find /bin/bash. As near as I can tell, everything is there. /usr/sbin/init links to /usr/lib/systemd/systemd, and the initramfs has those links in it, so why is switch root failing? The only thing I can come up with is that systemd somehow keeps track of the system it was installed on, and is failing to find something from the old system because it isn't mounted. Can anyone offer any insight? _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
