DRBL CloneZilla SE - boot freeze (nfs works)
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Hello everybody,
It's now 3 days i'm working on to get Clonezilla Server work without success.
I started with Linux Mint x64, it could not find a valid kernel image at ayo repo so i installed one with drblsrvoffline -k mykernel.deb
I got an error about binfmt 464c (i found out that the pxe kernel tried to execute some x64 code)…
Si i tried Linux Mint x86, installation worked great, but i was stuck with "NFS server not responding". I found out that the atl1c driver for my AR81XX ethernet card was buggy, so i upgraded to atl1e using Atheros site.
Now i'm stuck with a kernel booting CloneZilla into graphic mode, and it freezes on different statements depending the clients:
DELL Optiplex 380: intel8x0: white list rate for 0e11:008a is
Shuttle k86: switching to framebuffer mode 80x156
I then tried to install DRBL on a Centos 5.5 x86, but again my clients freeze at boot time saying "device mapper …."
I've really done everything i know to get it to work… But just won't properly boot a client… The client freezes everytime.
Btw, DRBL Live works great with same equipment (except Optiplex 380 which has a not yet recognized NIC)
Please, can anyone of you provide me with some infos how to accomplish a DRBL CloneZilla SE server that doesn't freeze my clients ?
Thank you.
(Sorry for my English :))
Got the answer! I'm a jack*ss. I should have tried Ubuntu in the first place instead of Mint… Mint is binary compatible to Ubuntu but doesn't work.
So:
1. Use Ubuntu instead of a fork
2. If you own a Atheros AR8131 card, the original kernel module doesn't work, use the driver found here : http://partner.atheros.com/Download.aspx
3. Do not use any x64 server to build your x86 kernels, it fails (at least for me)
Hope it will be usefull to someone :)
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Thanks for sharing that. You are right, Mint is not supported by DRBL.
Steven.