id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	guest	host
2991	Cloned HD of CentOS 5.2 can not boot	Chen Shaopeng		"A HD cloned from another HD of CentOS 5.2 using the following:


{{{
  VBoxManage clonehd centos5.2_1.vdi centos5.2_2.vdi
}}}

can not boot up due to volume error. The cloning seems to finish successfully, but when I tried to boot the cloned HD, I got the following error on the boot screen:


{{{
  Red Hat nash version 5.1.19.6 starting
    Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
    No volume groups found
    Volume group ""VolGroup00"" not found
  Unable to access resume device (/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01)
  mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root'
  setuproot: moving /dev failed: no such file or directory
  setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory
  setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory
  switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory
  Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
  -

}}}

Then everything stops there forever. The original HD still can boot without problem. The cloned HD is smaller than the original one.


{{{
  Original HD:
  UUID:                 e5bcd5c4-6154-405f-a53c-46856f3482d4
  Accessible:           yes
  Logical size:         8192 MBytes
  Current size on disk: 5387 MBytes
  Type:                 normal
  Storage format:       VDI
  In use by VMs:        CentOS 5.2 (UUID: 3943ae27-f626-4e10-90b8-a9d196d180dd)

  Cloned HD:
  UUID:                 7a895493-5d70-4c68-ada8-c775084bf68b
  Accessible:           yes
  Logical size:         8192 MBytes
  Current size on disk: 4952 MBytes
  Type:                 normal
  Storage format:       VDI
  In use by VMs:        CentOS 5.2 (2) (UUID: 217d6c3e-e69b-4b5e-985c-87a073ae3135)
}}}

Host and Guest info:

  Host OS: Linux Ubuntu 8.10 (x86_64)
  CPU: amd64

  Guest OS: Linux CentOS 5.2 (i386)
"	defect	closed	VM control	VirtualBox 2.1.0	duplicate			Linux	Linux