When installing grub while imaging a host, I get the message "Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time." and the system hangs indefinitely I am using drbl-1.10.31-1drbl on centos 5.7. The hardware being cloned/imaged is an HP server, /dev/sda is linked to /dev/cciss/c0d0.
If I Ctrl-Alt-Del, the target system boots and looks OK. Anyone know why it would stop like that? I used the same setup in vmware and clonezilla worked flawlessly.
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When installing grub while imaging a host, I get the message "Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time." and the system hangs indefinitely I am using drbl-1.10.31-1drbl on centos 5.7. The hardware being cloned/imaged is an HP server, /dev/sda is linked to /dev/cciss/c0d0.
If I Ctrl-Alt-Del, the target system boots and looks OK. Anyone know why it would stop like that? I used the same setup in vmware and clonezilla worked flawlessly.
Normally this is kernel/hardware support issue.
I suggest that you try newer linux kernel.
This one you might be interested if you are using Clonezilla SE:
http://clonezilla.org/use_clonezilla_live_in_drbl.php
Steven.
When I switched to newer hardware (DL180 G6) the problem stopped. I suppose it was an issue with the bios in the old machines.
OK, in that case you'd better to upgrade the firmware of BIOS for those old machines.
Steven.