We've been using Clonezilla without problem for some time now but recently we've run into an issue with some new hardware we've acquired.
We have a number of Dell PowerEdge R310 servers running CentOS that we've had no problem backing up until we bought another batch.
All the servers, both old and new, have an additional PCIe Nvidia NVS 300 graphics card, but when we try to boot the new servers into Clonezilla Live it fails with the following error:
If we remove the graphics card and boot Clonezilla it works fine.
The older servers boot Clonezilla fine with the graphics card installed.
We then noticed a difference between the servers, the new ones use a Core i3 processor whereas the old ones have a Xeon. The new ones also have 8GB RAM versus 1GB in the old ones.
We've tried various versions of Clonezilla including the latest on both Debian and Ubuntu builds and get the same problem.
Any ideas on why the combination of Core i3 CPU and Nvidia graphics card is causing a problem?
Thanks very much
Rob
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Hi
We've been using Clonezilla without problem for some time now but recently we've run into an issue with some new hardware we've acquired.
We have a number of Dell PowerEdge R310 servers running CentOS that we've had no problem backing up until we bought another batch.
All the servers, both old and new, have an additional PCIe Nvidia NVS 300 graphics card, but when we try to boot the new servers into Clonezilla Live it fails with the following error:
Hardware error from APEI Generic Hardware Error
Section_type: PCIe error
Vendor_id: 0x10de, device_id: 0x10d8
If we remove the graphics card and boot Clonezilla it works fine.
The older servers boot Clonezilla fine with the graphics card installed.
We then noticed a difference between the servers, the new ones use a Core i3 processor whereas the old ones have a Xeon. The new ones also have 8GB RAM versus 1GB in the old ones.
We've tried various versions of Clonezilla including the latest on both Debian and Ubuntu builds and get the same problem.
Any ideas on why the combination of Core i3 CPU and Nvidia graphics card is causing a problem?
Thanks very much
Rob
Did you try to use different modes in the boot menu?
Like safe graphic setings?
http://clonezilla.org/fine-print-live-doc.php?path=./clonezilla-live/doc/01_Save_disk_image/01-clonezilla-boot-menu.doc#01-clonezilla-boot-menu.doc
If so, the I believe this is the Linux kernel does not support your graphic card well. It's a kernel regression.
You might have to wait for newer Linux kernel to solve this issue. Or maybe you can find some boot parameters to avoid this then you can use it in the boot menu.
Steven.