How can I boot from an LVM snapshot on Red Hat Enterprise Linux?
Issue
- Test changes to your Operating System without impacting the installed OS until the changes have been verified to work.
- Is there a way to boot a LVM root snapshot? I can restore a root snapshot and boot it, but I want to boot the snapshot without restoring first.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), including:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5); or
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL6)
- Root volume is an LVM2 device
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