Happy New Year to everyone on this forum!

I launched a KVM instance based on a bootable CentOS 5.7 image from Openstack with euca-run-instance command, that has two file systems, /boot Linux file system with ID=83, and root (/) LVM file system with ID=8e.

Now after I have installed some softwares and run some experiments on the running instance, I want to use euca-bundle-vol command to bundle the runnning VM, and then publish it into Openstack Glance imaging server as a new image so that new instances spawned from that image will automatically inherit the new softwares and data.

But the problem is if I bundle the root file system together the boot file system, it will report the error "unable to copy files" unless I exclude the /boot file system with "-e /boot" option.

For example, without excluding /boot, it would fail

euca-bundle-vol -c ${EC2_CERT} -k ${EC2_PRIVATE_KEY} -u ${EC2_USER_ID} --ec2cert ${EUCALYPTUS_CERT} --no-inherit -v / -d /mnt/bundle -e /mnt -r x86_64 -s 10240 -p new-server
Unable to copy files

After excluding /boot, it would succeed:
euca-bundle-vol -c ${EC2_CERT} -k ${EC2_PRIVATE_KEY} -u ${EC2_USER_ID} --ec2cert ${EUCALYPTUS_CERT} --no-inherit -v / -d /mnt/bundle -e /mnt,/boot -r x86_64 -s 10240 -p new-server

Tarring image
Encrypting image
......
Generating manifest /mnt/bundle/new-server.manifest.xml

I am sure I have more than enough disk space on /mnt for a 10G image.

So my question is whether it is even possible to bundle a running instance that has two separate root and boot file systems? I am deeply appreciated if anyone can give me any hints?

Thanks a lot!

Josh