Re: [SLUG] clone non-LVM system onto new LVM drive

[Jake Anderson <yahoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Thanks for the cpio hint.
>
> Next, how do I persuade the new partition to boot? Do I have to do 
> some magic with grub? If so, what? Do I cpio the old /boot onto the 
> new, non-LVM boot partition? or can I use /boot within the new LV?
>
> Everything I read says to put /boot into a non-lvm partition. Does 
> grub-install  from a live CD give me the opportunity to spell out the 
> right parameters?
>
> I don't want to simply experiment in case I do bad things.
> I have no experience with LVM until now.
you may well need to build a new initrd as well
dunno for sure but there is magic involving chrooting into your new lvm 
instance and doing stuff.