Issues with booting after dd
 

We have an original VM running on citrix xen; our plan is to migrate this to "something else" (don't mind what at this point in time).

So far we've dd'd the drive to an image file; however I'm unable to boot the distribution. It gets to grub and with some minor editing I get "dracut fatal don't know how to handle..." Obviously I've changed the boot partition from an lvm device to a physical device (leaving as is causes the system to hang at boot). With citrix for some unusual reason the drives are called /dev/xvda, xvdb etc. I suspect this maybe related to the issues I'm facing - this and the system is unaware of the lvm volume.

Any help is really appreciated with this one; I've asked on the citrix forums with no solution. OS is redhat 6.1.

Sorted this. There was an issue with the lvm not being active upon boot and the console using hvroot. I changed the line and added rdshell and removed console=hvroot. Got into single user mode and fixed everything else (reconfigured lots of stuff).