Cloning/Imaging hangs at reboot

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Cloning/Imaging hangs at reboot

Forum: Clonezilla server edition

Creator: Dewey Paciaffi

Created: 2012-01-30

Updated: 2013-04-05

Dewey Paciaffi - 2012-01-30

Hello. I'm using drbl-1.10.31-1drbl and clonezilla-2.3.58-1drbl. I'm cloning and imaging an HP DL 180 G6. I take the default options when setting up a clone or re-image. If I select "-p reboot" or "-p shutdown" I always end up at

Telling INIT to go to single user mode.
INIT: Sending processes the TERM signal
INIT: Going to single user
INIT: Sending process the TERM signal
INIT: Sending process the TERM signal
Give root password for maintenance (or type Control-D to continue):

It's like something in the code is doing an "init S" instead of an "init 6" or "init 5".

Is there some way around this? Is there a way to capture all the text that appears on the client during the clone/image process?

I just ctrl-alt-del when this occurs and the clones and images are successful.

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Steven Shiau - 2012-02-01

This is weird… Is that possible you can show me the content of /proc/cmdline when you see those messages by running:
cat /proc/cmdline
?

Steven.

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Dewey Paciaffi - 2012-02-01

Thanks, Steven.

Here's /proc/cmdline:

initrd=initrd-pxe.img devfs=nomount drblthincli=off selinux=0 text 1 ocs_opt="-l en_US.UTF-8 -g auto -e1 auto -e2 -r -clone-hidden-data -p reboot restoredisk image1-2012-01-30-12-img sda" BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz-pxe

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Steven Shiau - 2012-02-08

Weird… This looks normal to me.
Or maybe try another method for imaging/cloning:
http://clonezilla.org/use_clonezilla_live_in_drbl.php

Steven.

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Dewey Paciaffi - 2012-02-08

drbl-SL.sh -i clonezilla-live-1.2.12-10-i686-pae.iso fails because initrd.img is in xz format and the script doesn't handle that. I manually opened the iso and did this:

xz -dc < initrd.img | cpio -id

and the initrd.img opened perfectly. I'll try an older iso tomorrow.

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Dewey Paciaffi - 2012-02-09

My bad. In looking at the script again this morning I see that it checks for xz files. The file command (4.17) on Redhat 5.7 does not recognize xz files and reports them as "data", causing the script to fail. I'll find a workaround.

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Dewey Paciaffi - 2012-02-09

Well, I rebuilt my clonezilla server with CentOS 6 and everything is working fine now.

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Steven Shiau - 2012-02-18

Thanks for reporting that.
Cool. It's nice to know you have found the solution.

Steven.

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