It seems I can not reproduce this issue.
Could you please show us the contents of files "mdadm.conf" and "mdstat.txt" in your image dir? It's easier for us to reproduce this issue.
Thanks.
Steven
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It will be Friday before I'll have access to these PCs again but I'll
attempt to get what you're looking for then.
Can you clarify which of the two issues in the patch file you are referring
to when you say you can't reproduce it?
Also what do you mean by image dir? Are you referring to a backup I have
already made??
Here are the two files you requested from a recent backup made from clonezilla-live-3.0.2-21-amd64 which had been patched by me to make it work for us. Ironically, the backups made with older versions of Clonezilla that still worked do not have these files in the image dir.
The issue I can not reproduce is when restoring, I can find the device /dev/md* in the TUI. Therefore I believe the software RAID what you have there is different from I have here.
Steven
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Okay. I wouldn't have expected to find a .conf file in the image directory that's why I decided to ask.
Also, when I attempt to restore, I too was able to see /dev/md126 in the TUI, but only after I made the change to the Regex that I first described to you. This of course meant that /dev/md126 could never be seen as a partition. The fix in the patch is because even if you do see /dev/md* in the TUI, it will fail to restore due the to device being busy or mounted. You can test as follows...
The output of the lsblk on the PC in question when called with /dev/md126 is like this
/dev/md126 raid1
/dev/md126p1 part
/dev/md126p2 part
/dev/md126p3 part
If you pipe the first line to the current awk statement it always returns the full line as follows
Thanks.
Because there are so many types of RAID, it would be better if you can provide the files I mentioned so that I can try to reproduce this issue here. It will be more complete so that I can test more.
Steven
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Oh, my bad. I only saw the last post you did.
Thanks.
If it's possible, could you please create a tarball of your image then share it? Please exclude those big md*-img.* files.
Steven
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OK, we have improved that.
Please give testing Clonezilla live >= 3.1.0-15 or 20230316-* a try: https://clonezilla.org/downloads.php
Please let's us know the results. Thanks.
Steven
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I am having trouble with md126 not displaying as well. This is a raid 1 on an new MSI motherboard using RST VMD. I even have to manually load the RST driver for the Windows installation USB to see the raid 1 disk/partitions. Clonezilla displays the 2 physical disk. Any help would be appreciated. I've tried the latest stable release, as well as 3.1.0-15. I also tried 2.7.3-19, but Clonezilla errors upon loading.
Keith
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So could you please boot Clonezilla live, enter command line prompt, then run:
1. sudo -i
2. cat /proc/partitions
3. blkid
4. cat /proc/mdstat
5. lsblk
Please post the results of 2-5. Thanks.
Steven
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It's RAID 1 through a MSI motherboard using RST VMD. When I install windows from a bootable USB, it doesn't see the raid disk either until I manually load the RST VMD driver from another USB.
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So this is software/firmware RAID... Do you know any GNU/Linux supports it?
BTW, have you tried Ubuntu-based Clonezilla live? It comes with non-free firmware, so it might support your device.
Steven
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I have the same questions here..already tried the latest version and also the Ubuntu-based Clonezilla live. I am having HP motherboard with RST VMD. Clonezilla displays the 2 physical disk but not the 1 Raid Disk. When I boot to Window 10, it is only 1 raid disk. I confirmed that software raid 1(Fake Raid) is enabled in the BIOS..anyone have idea for this? Thanks.
Btw, I have tried the 2.7.3-19, but there is error when boot to the Clonezilla. (Security error.)
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I'm also using the latest stable Ubuntu-based edition. The problem is that clonzilla does not recognize both disks as RAID , it only idnetify them as two seprate disks!!
I tried to restore to one of the individual disks, but sure enough after restoring I was not able to boot to windows.
I discovered Supermicro motherboards uses some sort of fake RAID called Intel Vroc, not sure if Clonezilla or Ubunto in general can detect this type of RAID. Thanks
Last edit: Shwan Abdulkareem 2023-07-29
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It seems I can not reproduce this issue.
Could you please show us the contents of files "mdadm.conf" and "mdstat.txt" in your image dir? It's easier for us to reproduce this issue.
Thanks.
Steven
Hi Steven,
It will be Friday before I'll have access to these PCs again but I'll
attempt to get what you're looking for then.
Can you clarify which of the two issues in the patch file you are referring
to when you say you can't reproduce it?
Also what do you mean by image dir? Are you referring to a backup I have
already made??
Regards
Last edit: Steven Shiau 2023-03-08
Hi Steven,
Here are the two files you requested from a recent backup made from clonezilla-live-3.0.2-21-amd64 which had been patched by me to make it work for us. Ironically, the backups made with older versions of Clonezilla that still worked do not have these files in the image dir.
The image dir means the image which Clonezilla saves for you. It's a dir actually, as shown here:
https://clonezilla.org/fine-print-live-doc.php?path=clonezilla-live/doc/02_Restore_disk_image
The issue I can not reproduce is when restoring, I can find the device /dev/md* in the TUI. Therefore I believe the software RAID what you have there is different from I have here.
Steven
Okay. I wouldn't have expected to find a .conf file in the image directory that's why I decided to ask.
Also, when I attempt to restore, I too was able to see /dev/md126 in the TUI, but only after I made the change to the Regex that I first described to you. This of course meant that /dev/md126 could never be seen as a partition. The fix in the patch is because even if you do see /dev/md* in the TUI, it will fail to restore due the to device being busy or mounted. You can test as follows...
The output of the lsblk on the PC in question when called with /dev/md126 is like this
If you pipe the first line to the current awk statement it always returns the full line as follows
Using my suggested fix returns nothing...
I really don't understand this behaviour as even if it found a match, it should only return the first field?
Thanks.
Because there are so many types of RAID, it would be better if you can provide the files I mentioned so that I can try to reproduce this issue here. It will be more complete so that I can test more.
Steven
Hi Steven,
I did provide them last Friday on Sourceforge.
Last edit: Steven Shiau 2023-03-12
Oh, my bad. I only saw the last post you did.
Thanks.
If it's possible, could you please create a tarball of your image then share it? Please exclude those big md*-img.* files.
Steven
Okay. I'll do that next Tuesday night. I won't have access to those PCs
until then....
Last edit: Steven Shiau 2023-03-12
Hi Steven,
Please find attached the tarball you requested.
Regards
Michael McGrath
Last edit: Steven Shiau 2023-03-16
OK, we have improved that.
Please give testing Clonezilla live >= 3.1.0-15 or 20230316-* a try:
https://clonezilla.org/downloads.php
Please let's us know the results. Thanks.
Steven
Hi Steven,
I have tested 3.1.0-15 and it works flawlessly. Great job. Thank you.
Michael McGrath
Hi Michael,
OK, great. Thanks for your feedback.
We might do some more changes to cover more RAID cases recently.
Steven
Hi,
I am having trouble with md126 not displaying as well. This is a raid 1 on an new MSI motherboard using RST VMD. I even have to manually load the RST driver for the Windows installation USB to see the raid 1 disk/partitions. Clonezilla displays the 2 physical disk. Any help would be appreciated. I've tried the latest stable release, as well as 3.1.0-15. I also tried 2.7.3-19, but Clonezilla errors upon loading.
Keith
So could you please boot Clonezilla live, enter command line prompt, then run:
1. sudo -i
2. cat /proc/partitions
3. blkid
4. cat /proc/mdstat
5. lsblk
Please post the results of 2-5. Thanks.
Steven
Hi Steve,
Thank you for your response. Below are the screenshots you requested.
Keith
I meant the results of 2, 3, 4, and 5. Please add that of 3 and 4.
Thanks.
Steven
That's my fault.
So are you sure you have RAID device? From the results of 2-5, I can not tell there is any RAID device exists in your machine.
Steven
It's RAID 1 through a MSI motherboard using RST VMD. When I install windows from a bootable USB, it doesn't see the raid disk either until I manually load the RST VMD driver from another USB.
So this is software/firmware RAID... Do you know any GNU/Linux supports it?
BTW, have you tried Ubuntu-based Clonezilla live? It comes with non-free firmware, so it might support your device.
Steven
I have the same questions here..already tried the latest version and also the Ubuntu-based Clonezilla live. I am having HP motherboard with RST VMD. Clonezilla displays the 2 physical disk but not the 1 Raid Disk. When I boot to Window 10, it is only 1 raid disk. I confirmed that software raid 1(Fake Raid) is enabled in the BIOS..anyone have idea for this? Thanks.
Btw, I have tried the 2.7.3-19, but there is error when boot to the Clonezilla. (Security error.)
I'm also using the latest stable Ubuntu-based edition. The problem is that clonzilla does not recognize both disks as RAID , it only idnetify them as two seprate disks!!
I tried to restore to one of the individual disks, but sure enough after restoring I was not able to boot to windows.
I discovered Supermicro motherboards uses some sort of fake RAID called Intel Vroc, not sure if Clonezilla or Ubunto in general can detect this type of RAID. Thanks
Last edit: Shwan Abdulkareem 2023-07-29
Last edit: Shwan Abdulkareem 2023-07-28
I can only say RAID is complicated... Too many possibilities...
Steven