Hello, I’ve been attempting to clone a production web server (a Pentium 233 with a 4-gig drive running Red Hat 5.2) here at work for about the last month and a half, trying dd, dump, cpio, and tar, and have been plagued with the same problem no matter which method I use: When booting the cloned machine, it gives this right after the Partition Check:
EXT2-fs: 03:01: couldn’t mount because of unsupported optional features.
[MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 0,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap]
[me=0x0,cs=0,#f=0,fs=0,fl=0,ds=0,de=0,data=0,se=0,ts=0,ls=0,rc=0,fc=4294967295]
Transaction block size = 512
Kernel panic: VSF: Unable to mount root fs on 03:01
….
And just hangs there forever. Anyway, the way I’m cloning is to take its drive and put it into my workstation here (after setting it to slave), and then dump/tar/dd/cpio the source machine’s drive over here to mine via NFS and then restore/untar/dd/cpio it all to the 2nd mounted drive from the 2nd machine. I then take that drive and put it back into the other machine after setting the jumpers back to master. Then, I boot up that machine from a boot floppy, mount the master driver, look to see that all the original machine’s files are indeed there, and install lilo using the kernel image that was used in the other machine. Both machines are the same architecture and pretty-much the same specs and hardware, and the 2 hard drives have identical sizes and geometry. After I install lilo and have the mbr set, one would think it should just boot up exactly like the other one does. But that same error message pops up, no matter what method I use. Ideas? Several LUGs and gurus I know haven’t been able to pinpoint the source of the problem.
Thanx.
~Stephan~