Hi,
I have a new (updated) 32 bit Fedora 7 host machine. I have just installed VMWare workstation 6.0.1-55017 from rpm. The uname -a from the host machine is:
Linux india 2.6.22.9-91.fc7 #1 SMP Thu Sep 27 23:10:59 EDT 2007 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
I am attempting to clone an existing Redhat 6.1 machine (32 bit) into a new VMWare image. The uname -a on the machine I am trying to clone is:
Linux linux15 2.2.12-20 #1 Mon Sep 27 10:25:54 EDT 1999 i686 unknown
The way I cloned the Redhat 6.1 into the VMWare, was that I created a new virtual machine with a harddrive large enough ( 80 GB), booted that virtual machine from a knoppix .iso image, fdisk'd and formatted the virtual harddrive, mounted it, copied the existing Redhat 6 machine to it via rsync over the network, cleaned the new /proc and edited /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf, ran a chroot to the new harddrive and did "lilo" to re-install it to the virtual harddrive. Then I shutdown out of knoppix, disconnected the virtual CDROM from the knoppix .iso file, and tried to boot the new VM.
I have done this method of cloning linuxes before.
It almost works, in that I get a lilo prompt and it starts showing messages. Then it halts:
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VFS: mounted root filesystem readonly.
change_root: old root has d_count=1
Trying to umount old root . . . okay.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 64k freed
Warning: unable to open an initial console.
Kernel panic: no init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.
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I tried editing the lilo.conf to add the init=/sbin/init option, and re-running lilo, that changed nothing. I also tried re-making the initrd in case it didn't have a module to read the harddisk, and that also changed nothing.
Any ideas ?
I attached my vmware.log file and the .vmx file.
--Rob
