Looking for a bit of help: So here is the task: Clone an existing machine. Sounds rather straight forward. The issue is that I'm cloning from ide to SCSI and LVM is involved. Lilo is the boot loader. I think I have most everything correct, but when I boot the cloned machine, vgscan is not able to locate the volume group (where the root partition is stored), and therefor mount /. Here is my configs: Initial machine: Dell Poweredge 400SC 40GB IDE Drive SuSE Enterprise 8 Partitions: /dev/hda1 - 50MB /boot partition /dev/hda2 - 2GB Swap partition /dev/hda3 - 36GB LVM partition volume1 - LVM Volume Group /dev/Volume1/Root LVM Logical volume for / Clone recipient: Dell Poweredge 600SC 73GB SCSI Drive So here is the methodology: 1. Boot clone using a rescue disk 2. on Colone fdisk /dev/sda and create the following partitions: /dev/sda1 - 50MB Linux partition /dev/sda2 - 2GB Swap partition /dev/sda3 - 36GB Linux LVM partition 3. Clone the partition data from the Initial machine to the clone machine using dd over ssh for both /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda3 4. Run vgscan and vgchange to activate the newly cloned volume group 5. mount the new root partition and chroot to it 6. Adjust the /etc/lilo.conf file 7. Adjust the /etc/fstab file 8. mk_initrd and run lilo When I boot, vgscan is unable to locate the volume group volume1. Here is the lilo config file: boot = /dev/sda change-rules reset read-only menu-scheme = Wb:kw:Wb:Wb lba32 prompt timeout = 80 message = /boot/message image = /boot/vmlinuz label = linux root = /dev/volume1/root vga = 791 initrd = /boot/initrd image = /boot/vmlinuz.shipped label = failsafe root = /dev/volume1/root vga = 791 initrd = /boot/initrd.shipped append = "ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off vga=normal nosmp maxcpus=0 disableapic 3" optional Here is the fstab file: /dev/sda1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/sda2 swap swap pri=42 0 0 /dev/volume1/root / reiserfs defaults 1 1 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs noauto 0 0 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0 Any ideas, suggestions, things to try? Thanks, Ron