All
I cloned a computer using version 1.0.7 to a backup location. All went well with no errors. After I did the restore to another computer with identical drives and when I went to boot the computer all I get is a blinking cursor in the upper left corner after POST.
I accessed the drives using a live cd linux distro and all appeared to be intact. Did my bootloader not get transferred? Did I miss a setting? What differences are there between 1.0.9 and 1.0.7?
The drives are 73.6 gig scsi and 4 drives in each computer. Same cylinders, heads, and sectors.
All help is appreciated
Rich
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BTW, you did not mentioned the OS you cloned. If it's MS windows, maybe you can try this:
Use Clonezilla live 1.0.9-10, boot it on the cloned and failed booting machine, enter command line prompt, then run
cat /opt/drbl/pkg/syslinux/mbr.bin > /dev/sda
(or /dev/hda..., just replace that with your machine's harddrive)
Steven.
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If you have a Windows XP restore disc boot into Windows setup and press R for recovery console.
Follow the instructions to log into a windows installation and try typing fixboot and pressing enter then when it has done type fixmbr and press enter. Remove the CD and restart and that should do the trick (well it did for me :) )
Tom
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All
I cloned a computer using version 1.0.7 to a backup location. All went well with no errors. After I did the restore to another computer with identical drives and when I went to boot the computer all I get is a blinking cursor in the upper left corner after POST.
I accessed the drives using a live cd linux distro and all appeared to be intact. Did my bootloader not get transferred? Did I miss a setting? What differences are there between 1.0.9 and 1.0.7?
The drives are 73.6 gig scsi and 4 drives in each computer. Same cylinders, heads, and sectors.
All help is appreciated
Rich
Did you check this ?
http://drbl.sourceforge.net/faq/index.php#path=./2_System&entry=23_Missing_OS.faq
For the difference between 1.0.9 and 1.0.7, check this:
http://opensource.nchc.org.tw/clonezilla-live/stable/ChangeLog-Clonezilla-live.txt
BTW, you did not mentioned the OS you cloned. If it's MS windows, maybe you can try this:
Use Clonezilla live 1.0.9-10, boot it on the cloned and failed booting machine, enter command line prompt, then run
cat /opt/drbl/pkg/syslinux/mbr.bin > /dev/sda
(or /dev/hda..., just replace that with your machine's harddrive)
Steven.
O/S is RHEL4
Did you check "-g auto" when you do a restoration ?
Yes -g auto is checked.
Errors on bootup are as follows:
mkrootdev: label / not found
mount: error2 mounting ext3
mount: error2 mounting none
switch root: mount failed:22
umount /initrd/dev/failed:2
Kernel panic-not syncing: attepted to kill init
Looks like another initrd problem... But this one is for restored machine.
Anybody here has similar problem ?
Hi,
If you have a Windows XP restore disc boot into Windows setup and press R for recovery console.
Follow the instructions to log into a windows installation and try typing fixboot and pressing enter then when it has done type fixmbr and press enter. Remove the CD and restart and that should do the trick (well it did for me :) )
Tom
Oops - Ignore that last message... just seen your not using Windows
Apologies
Tom