recovered computer cannot mount logical volume - kernel panic

[Doug Mattingly]

I created an image of a centos server with sda1 mounted to /boot and sda2 contains LVM logical volume mounted to /. I then created a new server on all different hardware with same size hard drive and the recovery process from clonezilla seems to go fine. When I try to boot the new server, I get a message that the volume group VolGroup00 cannot be found. I then booted into the clonezilla live cd and mounted the logical volume /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 to /mnt and mounted /dev/sda1 to /mnt/boot. I then chroot /mnt and ran mkinitrd -v -f initrd-xxx.img xxx (where xxx was the same kernel version as the existing initrd-xxx.img). A lot of stuff happened and it looked like drivers were being installed. However, when rebooting, I get the same kernel panic. I tried the same process with the --force-lvm-probe flag on mkinitrd but still get the kernel panic. Any thoughts on how to get the recovered server to boot?

Thanks!

[Steven Shiau]

Are you sure the Linux kernel from CentOS supports your new, different hardware?

Steven.