-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Nickolas Gray wrote: > 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 requirement so far is that it has > to be a disk to disk copy with no CD/DVD rescue involved. > > 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 > fedora-selinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-selinux-list Why do you think this is an SELinux issue? If you boot enforcing=0 does it still blow up? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAki+wRgACgkQrlYvE4MpobM6JwCeNSPTbPYwT7RAgG03A8d+sDyv VOgAn1mQ6tSxVdKAN5XIEP295+oOpiXV =URlk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-selinux-list mailing list fedora-selinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-selinux-list
