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[Clonezilla-live] UEFI/GPT systems?

[Les M. <les...@gm...>]

I used clonezilla-live 2.1.1-25 to clone a CentOS6.4 installation on
IBM x3550M4s.  The resulting copy won't boot but appears to be correct
when booted from an install DVD in rescue mode.   I'm not very
familiar with either UEFI systems or GPT partitioning.  Is there some
quick-fix to reinstall grub from the rescue disk (the obvious
'grub-install /dev/sda' went through the motions but didn't fix it),
or a way to have it work with clonezilla?

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Re: [Clonezilla-live] The custom-ocs script doesn't work with toram option

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

The dir /etc/ocs/ocs-live.d/ is actually in the file
"filesystem.squashfs", so you'd better to unsquashfs it, put your script
in the dir, then mksquashfs it again.
Or another possibility is, you use "toram" only, then after booting the
dir /pkg/ will be copied to the running system, then you use ocs_prerun
boot parameter to copy the file in /pkg/ to /etc/ocs/ocs-live.d/. It
should work.
Ref:
http://clonezilla.org/fine-print-live-doc.php?path=clonezilla-live/doc/99_Misc/00_live-boot-parameters.doc

Steven.

On 05/30/2013 05:05 PM, Nils Garcia wrote:
> I use one custom script with clonezilla live (usb).
> ocs_live_run="custom-ocs" and my custom-ocs script file in /pkg
> It's ok !
>
> But if I want to use it in to RAM, toram=filesystem.squashfs, this don't
> work :
>
> The jobs in /etc/ocs/ocs-live.d/ are finished. Start "custom-ocs" now.
> /usr/sbin/ocs-live-run-menu: line 106: custom-ocs: command not found
> "custom-ocs" is finished.
>
> I try with "toram" only, but it's the same.
>
>
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[Clonezilla-live] The custom-ocs script doesn't work with toram option

[Nils G. <nil...@en...>]

I use one custom script with clonezilla live (usb).
ocs_live_run="custom-ocs" and my custom-ocs script file in /pkg
It's ok !

But if I want to use it in to RAM, toram=filesystem.squashfs, this don't
work :

The jobs in /etc/ocs/ocs-live.d/ are finished. Start "custom-ocs" now.
/usr/sbin/ocs-live-run-menu: line 106: custom-ocs: command not found
"custom-ocs" is finished.

I try with "toram" only, but it's the same.

[Clonezilla-live] Stable Clonezilla live (2.1.1-25) Released

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

This release of Clonezilla live (2.1.1-25) includes minor enhancements 
and bug fixes.

ENHANCEMENTS and CHANGES
* The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release 
is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2013/Apr/20).
* Linux kernel was updated to 3.2.41-2.
* Partclone was updated to 0.2.60.drbl1.
* The package drbl was updated to 2.3.28-drbl1, and clonezilla was 
updated to 3.3.40-drbl1.
* Sample file "custom-ocs-1" was updated.
* A Dialog menu is used in the final action of Clonezilla live.
* The MAC address of a network card will be shown when configuring the 
network settings.

BUG FIXES
* A bug which caused the first menu (start_clonezilla or enter_shell) to 
still continued even after it was cancelled.
* When using "select_in_client" mode, the postrun action is now 
correctly passed to PXE clients.
* A bug has been fixed which made cnvt-ocs-dev unable to convert cciss 
device names to sd[a-z]. Thanks to Andy Smith (a.smith at ldex co uk) 
for reporting this issue.

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Re: [Clonezilla-live] linux raid1 image on pendrive

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

So are you sure the free space on your pendrive is enough?
You can use "df -h" command to see the free space on a mounted partition.

Steven.

On 04/23/2013 04:40 PM, mangesh sakhalkar wrote:
> hi,
>  
>  
>  I have installed CentOS 6.3 x86_64 on Gigabyte motherboardH61, Core
> i3processor, 2GB ram and 80 GB *2 Hard disk for raid1. where
> /partition is 20 GB(MD0) swap is 2GB and /home is 2GB(MD1).
>  I want to take the image of the full disk on 8 GB Pen drive,  it gives
> me error insufficient disk space after 86%, where as earlier I created a
> disk image and partition image both of 2TB drive on 8 GB pen drive only
> . I don't know am I missing some thing ?
>  
> Sorry I'm new to CZ as well as Linux and appreciate any help
>  
>  
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[Clonezilla-live] linux raid1 image on pendrive

[mangesh s. <man...@ya...>]

hi,
 
 
 I have installed CentOS 6.3 x86_64 on Gigabyte motherboardH61, Core i3processor, 2GB ram and 80 GB *2 Hard disk for raid1. where /partition is 20 GB(MD0) swap is 2GB and /home is 2GB(MD1).
 I want to take the image of the full disk on 8 GB Pen drive,  it gives me error insufficient disk space after 86%, where as earlier I created a disk image and partition image both of 2TB drive on 8 GB pen drive only . I don't know am I missing some thing ?
 
Sorry I'm new to CZ as well as Linux and appreciate any help
 
 
Regards
Mangi

Re: [Clonezilla-live] Clonezilla-Live 2 as a drive recovery tool?

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

Hi,
Did you try the "-rescue" option in the expert mode?
It might help.

Steven.

On 04/16/2013 11:46 PM, Kevin R. Bulgrien wrote:
> Some years ago I learned of Clonezilla Live as a drive recovery tool.  I
> was able to recover a hard drive with it by simply copying the failed
> drive over to a new drive simply because the failed areas were
> non-critical. It was marvelous.  It worked because the cloning
> process did not allow sector read failures to impede its
> progress.  Recently I had a drive failure occur, so I downloaded the
> current Clonezilla Live CD:
>
> $ cat /media/cdrom/Clonezilla-Live-Version
> clonezilla-live-2.1.1-7-i686-pae
> This Clonezilla live iso file was created by this command:
> ocs-iso -s -i 2.1.1-7-i686-pae
>
> My experience was much different.  This revision of Clonezilla Live was
> unable to replicate the failed drive onto a new drive.  It hung up on
> failed sectors and repeatedly attempted to copy the failed sectors.  I
> let it run for well over an hour and it never would stop mentioning two
> sequential sectors/drive blocks.  There was no evidence that it was
> able to proceed beyond the first failure it encountered - though it
> was somewhat difficult to monitor as it kept overwriting the status
> screen with stderr spew.  I eventually was able to figure out that by
> switching to alternate consoles for a long time, it was possible to
> switch back to the main console and briefly see the status before it
> was overwritten.  At one point I saw that its estimate at recovery of
> the 250G drive was at 1186 hours - making it fairly apparent that it
> was making no progress whatsoever.
>
> I tried a number of ways of performing the replication, including
> sector-by-sector copying.  Nothing I tried worked, and various methods
> would not even try to perform the operation past the point where the
> first sector failure was.
>
> I am not entirely sure that the copy was completely unsuccessful.  The
> point where it got stuck was where two sequential sector numbers were
> mentioned, and where two sequential block numbers were also mentioned.
> Conceptually the problem might be related to sequential failed sectors
> at block boundaries as bugs can often be spawned undetected for only 
> infrequently occurring circumstances.  This is pure conjecture.  I have
> not looked at underlying software.
>
> After many attempts I finally started considering alternative
> approaches.  I recalled that I still had the Clonezilla Live CD I made
> the first time  I had success with it and failed drive recovery:
>
> $ cat /media/cdrom/Clonezilla-Live-Version
> clonezilla-live-1.2.4-28-686
> This Clonezilla live iso file was created by this command:
> ocs-iso -s -i 1.2.4-28-686
>
> Upon locating this media, I booted it, and in a single attempt,
> successfully recovered the failed disk.
>
> I don't particularly know if the Clonezilla project has made an
> intentional move away from drive recovery.  I looked over the last
> year or so of mailing list archives and saw no apparent reference to
> this type of issue.  In any event, since the web has numerous
> testimonials to the capabilities of Clonezilla as a drive recovery
> tool, perhaps my experience is of note.
>
> It would appear that the current revision of Clonezilla Live is no
> longer suitable for drive recovery.
>
> In my case, the drive experienced only sector failures - S.M.A.R.T.
> showed no other problems except that the sector re-mapping operations
> had gone over threshold.  The drive vendor suggested zeroing the drive
> to force it to remap all of the failed sectors, however, it appeared
> that the number of failed sectors exceeded the size of the spare sector
> pool.
>
> In case this type of use is simply not frequently exercised, I decided
> to write this note to note the possibility of an undiscovered
> regression, and to put on record a note that might suggest to a future
> user that an older revision might be helpful in the case of drive
> recovery.
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[Clonezilla-live] Clonezilla-Live 2 as a drive recovery tool?

[Kevin R. B. <kbu...@at...>]

Some years ago I learned of Clonezilla Live as a drive recovery tool.  I
was able to recover a hard drive with it by simply copying the failed
drive over to a new drive simply because the failed areas were
non-critical. It was marvelous.  It worked because the cloning
process did not allow sector read failures to impede its
progress.  Recently I had a drive failure occur, so I downloaded the
current Clonezilla Live CD:

$ cat /media/cdrom/Clonezilla-Live-Version
clonezilla-live-2.1.1-7-i686-pae
This Clonezilla live iso file was created by this command:
ocs-iso -s -i 2.1.1-7-i686-pae

My experience was much different.  This revision of Clonezilla Live was
unable to replicate the failed drive onto a new drive.  It hung up on
failed sectors and repeatedly attempted to copy the failed sectors.  I
let it run for well over an hour and it never would stop mentioning two
sequential sectors/drive blocks.  There was no evidence that it was
able to proceed beyond the first failure it encountered - though it
was somewhat difficult to monitor as it kept overwriting the status
screen with stderr spew.  I eventually was able to figure out that by
switching to alternate consoles for a long time, it was possible to
switch back to the main console and briefly see the status before it
was overwritten.  At one point I saw that its estimate at recovery of
the 250G drive was at 1186 hours - making it fairly apparent that it
was making no progress whatsoever.

I tried a number of ways of performing the replication, including
sector-by-sector copying.  Nothing I tried worked, and various methods
would not even try to perform the operation past the point where the
first sector failure was.

I am not entirely sure that the copy was completely unsuccessful.  The
point where it got stuck was where two sequential sector numbers were
mentioned, and where two sequential block numbers were also mentioned.
Conceptually the problem might be related to sequential failed sectors
at block boundaries as bugs can often be spawned undetected for only 
infrequently occurring circumstances.  This is pure conjecture.  I have
not looked at underlying software.

After many attempts I finally started considering alternative
approaches.  I recalled that I still had the Clonezilla Live CD I made
the first time  I had success with it and failed drive recovery:

$ cat /media/cdrom/Clonezilla-Live-Version
clonezilla-live-1.2.4-28-686
This Clonezilla live iso file was created by this command:
ocs-iso -s -i 1.2.4-28-686

Upon locating this media, I booted it, and in a single attempt,
successfully recovered the failed disk.

I don't particularly know if the Clonezilla project has made an
intentional move away from drive recovery.  I looked over the last
year or so of mailing list archives and saw no apparent reference to
this type of issue.  In any event, since the web has numerous
testimonials to the capabilities of Clonezilla as a drive recovery
tool, perhaps my experience is of note.

It would appear that the current revision of Clonezilla Live is no
longer suitable for drive recovery.

In my case, the drive experienced only sector failures - S.M.A.R.T.
showed no other problems except that the sector re-mapping operations
had gone over threshold.  The drive vendor suggested zeroing the drive
to force it to remap all of the failed sectors, however, it appeared
that the number of failed sectors exceeded the size of the spare sector
pool.

In case this type of use is simply not frequently exercised, I decided
to write this note to note the possibility of an undiscovered
regression, and to put on record a note that might suggest to a future
user that an older revision might be helpful in the case of drive
recovery.

Re: [Clonezilla-live] CloneZilla-Live pxe Booting with multiple NICs Failing

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

For Broadcom Ethernet card, you might need non-free firmware.
Therefore please use alternative Clonezilla live, e.g.
20120325-raring
It contains non-free firmware.

Steven.

On 2013年03月19日 05:33, Malek Musleh wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am having an issue trying to pxe boot CloneZilla-Live to my client
> from my server:
> 
> I get the error:
> 
> Begin: Mounting root file system .. Begin: Running
> /scripts/live-premount ... Waiting for ethcards(s) up... If this
> fails, maybe the ethernet card is not supported by the kernel
> 2.6.32-50-amd.
> 
> My client machines has 3 NIC cards (2 Intel gigabit eth1-2, and 1 10
> gigabit eth0 which does not work). In my default file, I have the
> following for CloneZilla-Live:
> 
> # Example for Clonezilla live PXE booting
> # //NOTE// Remember to change the file names to match your files and
> check parameters in syslinux/syslinux.cf\
> g from the zip file, copy them to here. It might be different from
> here, say vmlinuz1 path maybe different.
> label Clonezilla Live-1.2.6-40
>   MENU DEFAULT
> #  MENU HIDE
>   MENU LABEL Clonezilla Live (Ramdisk-1.2.6-40)
> #  # MENU PASSWD
>   kernel vmlinuz-1.2.6-40 pcie_aspm=off idle=poll apm=off acpi=off
> pci=off noapic
>   append initrd=initrd-1.2.6-40.img boot=live config noswap nolocales
> edd=on nomodeset ocs_live_run="ocs-live-general"
> ocs_live_extra_param="" keyboard-layouts="" ocs_live_batch="no"
> locales="" live-netdev="eth1" ocs_debug vga=788 nosplash noprompt
> fetch=tftp://10.0.5.10/var/lib/tftpboot/tftpboot/nbi_img/filesystem-1.2.6-40.squashfs
> ip=all
>   TEXT HELP
>   *  Boot Clonezilla live via network
>   ENDTEXT
> 
> I tried live-netdev="eth1" to specify that I want it to try the
> gigabit eth1 port, but the kernel boot shows that it finds the eth0
> Broadcom NIC Card. I also tried ip=all and mounting the inited.img as
> follows:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/clonezilla/forums/forum/663168/topic/3479675
> 
> but I could not see the .conf file that he changed to get it to boot.
> 
> I also tried 2 different versions of clonezilla-live:
> clonezilla-live-1.2.6.40/  (current one to match my host kernel, and
> clonezilla-live-2.1.0-26-amd64.zip), but with no such luck.
> 
> Anyone have any suggestions/ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Malek
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[Clonezilla-live] Stable Clonezilla live (2.1.1-7) Released

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

This release of Clonezilla live (2.1.1-7) includes minor enhancements 
and bug fixes.

*** ENHANCEMENTS and CHANGES ***
     * The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This 
release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2013/Mar/14).
     * Partclone was updated to 0.2.59.
     * Clonezilla is now able to image Minix.
     * Program keyutils was added. Thanks to Joe M. for this suggestion.
     * Command grub-install is no longer run for grub1 on an ext4 file 
system when grub-install is from Debian. This prevents a potential 
indefinite hang.
     * A prompt about skipping re-installing grub 1 in ocs-functions was 
improved.
     * For imaging/cloning partition mode, "-g auto" is no longer turned 
on by default. While it's still on for the imaging/cloning disk mode.
     * The progress bar for resize2fs was turned on when resizing the 
ext file system to fit the partition size.
*** BUG FIXES ***
     * Bugs where ocs-onthefly failed to use the "-k1" option and where 
ocs-tux-postprocess did not search LV were fixed.
     * A bug where there was no ocs-update-syslinux process in 
ocs-onthefly was fixed.

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[Clonezilla-live] CloneZilla-Live pxe Booting with multiple NICs Failing

[Malek M. <mal...@gm...>]

Hi,

I am having an issue trying to pxe boot CloneZilla-Live to my client
from my server:

I get the error:

Begin: Mounting root file system .. Begin: Running
/scripts/live-premount ... Waiting for ethcards(s) up... If this
fails, maybe the ethernet card is not supported by the kernel
2.6.32-50-amd.

My client machines has 3 NIC cards (2 Intel gigabit eth1-2, and 1 10
gigabit eth0 which does not work). In my default file, I have the
following for CloneZilla-Live:

# Example for Clonezilla live PXE booting
# //NOTE// Remember to change the file names to match your files and
check parameters in syslinux/syslinux.cf\
g from the zip file, copy them to here. It might be different from
here, say vmlinuz1 path maybe different.
label Clonezilla Live-1.2.6-40
  MENU DEFAULT
#  MENU HIDE
  MENU LABEL Clonezilla Live (Ramdisk-1.2.6-40)
#  # MENU PASSWD
  kernel vmlinuz-1.2.6-40 pcie_aspm=off idle=poll apm=off acpi=off
pci=off noapic
  append initrd=initrd-1.2.6-40.img boot=live config noswap nolocales
edd=on nomodeset ocs_live_run="ocs-live-general"
ocs_live_extra_param="" keyboard-layouts="" ocs_live_batch="no"
locales="" live-netdev="eth1" ocs_debug vga=788 nosplash noprompt
fetch=tftp://10.0.5.10/var/lib/tftpboot/tftpboot/nbi_img/filesystem-1.2.6-40.squashfs
ip=all
  TEXT HELP
  *  Boot Clonezilla live via network
  ENDTEXT

I tried live-netdev="eth1" to specify that I want it to try the
gigabit eth1 port, but the kernel boot shows that it finds the eth0
Broadcom NIC Card. I also tried ip=all and mounting the inited.img as
follows:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/clonezilla/forums/forum/663168/topic/3479675

but I could not see the .conf file that he changed to get it to boot.

I also tried 2 different versions of clonezilla-live:
clonezilla-live-1.2.6.40/  (current one to match my host kernel, and
clonezilla-live-2.1.0-26-amd64.zip), but with no such luck.

Anyone have any suggestions/ideas?

Thanks,

Malek

[Clonezilla-live] Stable Clonezilla live (2.1.0-26) Released

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

This release of Clonezilla live (2.1.0-26) includes major enhancements
and bug fixes.

*** ENHANCEMENTS and CHANGES ***
    * The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This
release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2013/Feb/26).
    * Linux kernel was updated to 3.2.39-1.
    * Multipath devices, e.g. /dev/cciss/c0d0, are now supported
natively. No more linking them to /dev/sd[a-z]. Therefore now LVM on
cciss device are supported. Thanks to the patch files from Miracle Linux.
    * A "blkdev.list" info file was added in the image dir.
    * Xen disk (/dev/xvd[a-z]) was added as a supported device.
    * Three log files, /var/log/clonezilla.log, /var/log/ocs-netcfg.log,
and /var/log/ocs-mount.log are used to save the logs.
    * Language file ca_ES, de_DE, es_ES, it_IT, fr_FR, ja_JP.UTF-8,
zh_CN and zh_TW were updated. Thanks to René Mérou, Michael Vinzenz,
Alex Ibáñez López, Gianfranco Gentili, Jean-Francois Nifenecker, Akira
YOSHIYAMA, and Zhiqiang Zhang.
    * Package partclone was updated to 0.2.58.drbl1. An issue with
imaging JFS partitions larger than 50 GB has been fixed.
    * Adding "-m 1024" option to partclone. This should increase the
imaging efficiency. Thanks to Ingo Wolf Wolf _at_ gmx de> for this
suggestion.
    * An option -srel|--save-restore-error-log to force saving error log
in the image dir was added in ocs-sr and drbl-ocs. By default, we do not
save that in the image directory when restoring. Only when saving it
will be saved in the image dir.
    * Package udisks was added the packages list for Clonezilla live.
Thanks to fusi1939 for this suggestion.
    * Pacakge extlinux was added. Therefore makeboot.sh can now make a
USB flash flash drive with NTFS, ext2/3/4, and btrfs bootable.

*** BUG FIXES ***
    * A bug where makeboot.sh failed to deal with path names containing
white space was fixed
    * Boot parameter containing "$" character did not work for ocs
related parameters. Thanks to kuen-shieh yang  for reporting this issue.

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Re: [Clonezilla-live] About adding a driver

[Peter M. <io...@cl...>]

On Thu, 21 Feb 2013, Steven Shiau wrote:

> Did you try Clonezilla live 20130219-raring?
> It comes with Linux kernel 3.8 so maybe your hardware has been supported
> already.

I tried it now, but it didnt help :(
Anyone that knows where to find the drivers or better already have an iso?
I can host the iso so everybody can download it :)

> On 02/20/2013 04:56 PM, Peter Magnusson wrote:
>> There is a really nice howto about howto add a driver here:
>> http://clonezilla.org/show-live-doc-content.php?topic=clonezilla-live/doc/06_Add_extra_driver
>>
>> The problem is that I dont find the driver itself. Im trying to find the
>> driver for C600 chipset (its a Dell PowerEdge C6220), but all I can find is
>> this: http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?lang=eng&DwnldID=20964
>> And that doesnt work with ubuntu/debian only Redhat/SUSE.
>> As it seems exactly for that driver the howto itself is written, I think it
>> would be a good idea to post the URL itself for the driver as it seems like
>> it exist one?
>>
>> So... Is it someone that got the URL for a driver that will work with
>> clonezilla live? Im using clonezilla-live-20121217-quantal.iso.
>>
>> Or even better, an already made iso with the driver included...
>> Im sure it just wont be just me that needs it.
>>
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Re: [Clonezilla-live] About adding a driver

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

Did you try Clonezilla live 20130219-raring?
It comes with Linux kernel 3.8 so maybe your hardware has been supported
already.

Steven.

On 02/20/2013 04:56 PM, Peter Magnusson wrote:
> There is a really nice howto about howto add a driver here:
> http://clonezilla.org/show-live-doc-content.php?topic=clonezilla-live/doc/06_Add_extra_driver
>
> The problem is that I dont find the driver itself. Im trying to find the 
> driver for C600 chipset (its a Dell PowerEdge C6220), but all I can find is 
> this: http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?lang=eng&DwnldID=20964
> And that doesnt work with ubuntu/debian only Redhat/SUSE. 
> As it seems exactly for that driver the howto itself is written, I think it 
> would be a good idea to post the URL itself for the driver as it seems like 
> it exist one?
>
> So... Is it someone that got the URL for a driver that will work with 
> clonezilla live? Im using clonezilla-live-20121217-quantal.iso.
>
> Or even better, an already made iso with the driver included...
> Im sure it just wont be just me that needs it.
>
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[Clonezilla-live] About adding a driver

[Peter M. <io...@cl...>]

There is a really nice howto about howto add a driver here:
http://clonezilla.org/show-live-doc-content.php?topic=clonezilla-live/doc/06_Add_extra_driver

The problem is that I dont find the driver itself. Im trying to find the 
driver for C600 chipset (its a Dell PowerEdge C6220), but all I can find is 
this: http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?lang=eng&DwnldID=20964
And that doesnt work with ubuntu/debian only Redhat/SUSE. 
As it seems exactly for that driver the howto itself is written, I think it 
would be a good idea to post the URL itself for the driver as it seems like 
it exist one?

So... Is it someone that got the URL for a driver that will work with 
clonezilla live? Im using clonezilla-live-20121217-quantal.iso.

Or even better, an already made iso with the driver included...
Im sure it just wont be just me that needs it.

Re: [Clonezilla-live] Windows task scheduler issue

[Ceasar S. <cea...@gm...>]

Hi Bill,

This problem wouldn't happened on my case :
Windows 7 :  add  task scheduler before save disk ( show message when
specified user auto login Windows ).
Process :  Save disk then restore disk with -hn0 .Of course, it change
its hostname via Clonezilla-live.
The show message task still work in different hostname and it don't fix
any configuration of the task.

So, if the problem still existing on you, maybe the follow could be for
your reference :
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-performance/bug-changing-computer-name-isnt-reflected-in/c41d6623-02ce-4abd-80df-0f4b0a580e60
http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/48-177055

    Ceasar Sun




>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: [Clonezilla-live] Windows task scheduler issue
>> Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 17:00:25 -0500
>> From: Bill Gurley <gu...@io...>
>> To: <clo...@li...>
>>
>> Guys:
>>
>> This is not exactly a clonezilla question, but I suspect that someone on
>> this list has encountered this:
>>
>> We use clonezilla to manage our computer lab.  When we restore our
>> latest build, we always use the hn1 option to rename the machine's
>> Windows "Computer Name" using the mac address.  This works beautifully.
>>
>> However, we recently decided that we want to set up a task in the
>> windows scheduler to delete user files and empty the recycle bin for the
>> default user, and for this to run every night at 4:00 AM.
>>
>> The problem that we have run into is that the Windows Task Scheduler
>> wants to specify the user that runs the task in the format:
>>
>> ComputerName\username
>>
>> We do this on our master build computer.  Then when the image gets
>> restored to the lab machines, the computer name has now changed, so it
>> the task will not run because it says that the user does not exist!
>>
>> Does anyone know a way around this?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>


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[Clonezilla-live] Windows task scheduler issue

[Bill G. <gu...@io...>]

Guys:

This is not exactly a clonezilla question, but I suspect that someone on 
this list has encountered this:

We use clonezilla to manage our computer lab.  When we restore our 
latest build, we always use the hn1 option to rename the machine's 
Windows "Computer Name" using the mac address.  This works beautifully.

However, we recently decided that we want to set up a task in the 
windows scheduler to delete user files and empty the recycle bin for the 
default user, and for this to run every night at 4:00 AM.

The problem that we have run into is that the Windows Task Scheduler 
wants to specify the user that runs the task in the format:

ComputerName\username

We do this on our master build computer.  Then when the image gets 
restored to the lab machines, the computer name has now changed, so it 
the task will not run because it says that the user does not exist!

Does anyone know a way around this?


Thanks,

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Re: [Clonezilla-live] Thermal Problems and a Solution

[Michal S. <hra...@gm...>]

Hello,

On 16 January 2013 01:42, Steven Shiau <st...@nc...> wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
> Thanks for sharing that.
> Your solution is great. For sure it a great feature we should add in the
> expert mode. Besides this, I think another option solution is to find a
> way to know the temperature is too high then accordingly reduce the CPU
> speed.

This is something that should be handled by the kernel.

On many laptops (and iMacs, ..) the cooling is simply insufficient and
it is required as part of normal operation to lower the CPU and GPU
frequency to keep the system running.

There should be ACPI tables that tell the kernel to lower the CPU
speed when a thermal zone reaches too high temperature. There might be
a bug in the tables which Windows drivers work around by consulting
their own tables (common), the thermal driver might not be loaded or
the kernel does not act on the thermal zone info. Maybe an additional
package is required to monitor and act on these thermal readings.

It is also possible that a bios update would resolve this issue on
some affected systems.

Thanks

Michal

Re: [Clonezilla-live] Thermal Problems and a Solution

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

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Hi Andreas,
On 01/18/2013 06:29 AM, Andreas Winkelbauer wrote:
> Hi Steven!
>
> It would of course be optimal to throttle the CPU clock according to the
> current temperature, but this is exactly what the kernel attempts to do.
> Unfortunately this approach may fail under heavy load for several
> reasons (BIOS bugs, bad ACPI implementation, inaccurate sensors,
> insufficient cooling either by design or through aging, dust, etc.).
>
> Therefore I think it is appropriate to give the user an (expert) option
> to reduce the CPU clock. It would also be possible to monitor the kernel
> messages for potential thermal problems (usually something like
> "temperature above threshold") and to reduce the CPU clock automatically
> if such messages show up. However, I am not sure if such a behavior
> should be enabled by default (because even if the temperature is high it
> might not always be necessary to permanently reduce the CPU clock,
> thereby unnecessarily degrading the performance).
>
> For an expert option concerning the CPU clock, I have thought of the
> following implementation possibilities:
>
> * Find available frequencies and let the user select one of them.
>
> * Let the user select 50%, 60%, ..., 100% of the maximum frequency.
>
> * Let the user enter the percentage of the maximum frequency to be used.
>
> I would prefer the second option, since it should be easy to understand
> by the user and also simple to implement. What do you think?
Agree. We will implement this in the future release.
Thanks again for this idea.

Steven.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Andreas
>
>
> On 2013-01-16 01:42, Steven Shiau wrote:
>> Hi Andreas,
>> Thanks for sharing that.
>> Your solution is great. For sure it a great feature we should add in the
>> expert mode. Besides this, I think another option solution is to find a
>> way to know the temperature is too high then accordingly reduce the CPU
>> speed.
>> We should discuss more about this.
>> Thanks again.
>>
>> Steven.
>>
>> On 2013/1/16 上午 07:47, Andreas Winkelbauer wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> several users have reported hardware failures with clonezilla due to
>>> thermal problems, in particular with notebooks (see [1-3]). I also have
>>> seen these issues with my HP 2540p laptop. It seems that the cooling
>>> system of some notebooks is insufficient when the system is run at full
>>> CPU load for an extended period of time (this can be minutes, hours, or
>>> even days before a shut down to prevent overheating will occur).
>>>
>>> Since up to now no solution has been posted here, I'll explain how I
>>> solved the thermal problems for me. A possible solution is to set the
>>> CPU to a fixed, lower operating frequency using cpufreq-set from
>>> cpufrequtils (which is installed by default). This effectively reduces
>>> heat at the cost of a (relatively small) performance penalty.
>>> Specifically, what I did was (for a system with 4 CPUs):
>>>
>>> $ sudo cpufreq-set -c 0 -f 1600MHz
>>> $ sudo cpufreq-set -c 1 -f 1600MHz
>>> $ sudo cpufreq-set -c 2 -f 1600MHz
>>> $ sudo cpufreq-set -c 3 -f 1600MHz
>>>
>>> This worked for me and it should work with all reasonably modern CPUs.
>>> The current settings and the available frequency steps can be read using
>>>
>>> $ cpufreq-info
>>>
>>> A few remarks: cpufreq-set automatically rounds the specified frequency
>>> to the "nearest" available operating frequency (my laptop CPU, e.g., has
>>> a minimum frequency of 1.2 GHz and a maximum frequency of 2.53 GHz with
>>> 11 steps in total). However, I have observed that the rounding sometimes
>>> does not work if -f specifies exactly one of the available frequencies
>>> (then the next higher frequency might be used instead which seems to be
>>> a bug of cpufreq-set). Using the above commands, the CPU runs at a fixed
>>> frequency until changed again or until the next restart. Changes made by
>>> cpufreq-set are not permanent, i.e., the changes are lost if the system
>>> is rebooted.
>>>
>>> Another way to prevent overheating could be to use "cpulimit", but I
>>> find it less suited for this particular use case and the corresponding
>>> package is not installed by default.
>>>
>>> @Steven: I could provide a patch for clonezilla-live to include this in
>>> the expert options. However, we should think about how to implement this
>>> best.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Andreas
>>>
>>>
>>> [1]
>>>
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3090553&group_id=115473&atid=671650
>>> [2]
>>>
http://sourceforge.net/projects/clonezilla/forums/forum/663168/topic/3903931
>>> [3]
>>>
http://sourceforge.net/projects/clonezilla/forums/forum/394751/topic/3877156
>

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Re: [Clonezilla-live] Thermal Problems and a Solution

[Andreas W. <and...@nt...>]

Hi Steven!

It would of course be optimal to throttle the CPU clock according to the
current temperature, but this is exactly what the kernel attempts to do.
Unfortunately this approach may fail under heavy load for several
reasons (BIOS bugs, bad ACPI implementation, inaccurate sensors,
insufficient cooling either by design or through aging, dust, etc.).

Therefore I think it is appropriate to give the user an (expert) option
to reduce the CPU clock. It would also be possible to monitor the kernel
messages for potential thermal problems (usually something like
"temperature above threshold") and to reduce the CPU clock automatically
if such messages show up. However, I am not sure if such a behavior
should be enabled by default (because even if the temperature is high it
might not always be necessary to permanently reduce the CPU clock,
thereby unnecessarily degrading the performance).

For an expert option concerning the CPU clock, I have thought of the
following implementation possibilities:

* Find available frequencies and let the user select one of them.

* Let the user select 50%, 60%, ..., 100% of the maximum frequency.

* Let the user enter the percentage of the maximum frequency to be used.

I would prefer the second option, since it should be easy to understand
by the user and also simple to implement. What do you think?

Cheers,
Andreas


On 2013-01-16 01:42, Steven Shiau wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
> Thanks for sharing that.
> Your solution is great. For sure it a great feature we should add in the 
> expert mode. Besides this, I think another option solution is to find a 
> way to know the temperature is too high then accordingly reduce the CPU 
> speed.
> We should discuss more about this.
> Thanks again.
> 
> Steven.
> 
> On 2013/1/16 上午 07:47, Andreas Winkelbauer wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> several users have reported hardware failures with clonezilla due to
>> thermal problems, in particular with notebooks (see [1-3]). I also have
>> seen these issues with my HP 2540p laptop. It seems that the cooling
>> system of some notebooks is insufficient when the system is run at full
>> CPU load for an extended period of time (this can be minutes, hours, or
>> even days before a shut down to prevent overheating will occur).
>>
>> Since up to now no solution has been posted here, I'll explain how I
>> solved the thermal problems for me. A possible solution is to set the
>> CPU to a fixed, lower operating frequency using cpufreq-set from
>> cpufrequtils (which is installed by default). This effectively reduces
>> heat at the cost of a (relatively small) performance penalty.
>> Specifically, what I did was (for a system with 4 CPUs):
>>
>> $ sudo cpufreq-set -c 0 -f 1600MHz
>> $ sudo cpufreq-set -c 1 -f 1600MHz
>> $ sudo cpufreq-set -c 2 -f 1600MHz
>> $ sudo cpufreq-set -c 3 -f 1600MHz
>>
>> This worked for me and it should work with all reasonably modern CPUs.
>> The current settings and the available frequency steps can be read using
>>
>> $ cpufreq-info
>>
>> A few remarks: cpufreq-set automatically rounds the specified frequency
>> to the "nearest" available operating frequency (my laptop CPU, e.g., has
>> a minimum frequency of 1.2 GHz and a maximum frequency of 2.53 GHz with
>> 11 steps in total). However, I have observed that the rounding sometimes
>> does not work if -f specifies exactly one of the available frequencies
>> (then the next higher frequency might be used instead which seems to be
>> a bug of cpufreq-set). Using the above commands, the CPU runs at a fixed
>> frequency until changed again or until the next restart. Changes made by
>> cpufreq-set are not permanent, i.e., the changes are lost if the system
>> is rebooted.
>>
>> Another way to prevent overheating could be to use "cpulimit", but I
>> find it less suited for this particular use case and the corresponding
>> package is not installed by default.
>>
>> @Steven: I could provide a patch for clonezilla-live to include this in
>> the expert options. However, we should think about how to implement this
>> best.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Andreas
>>
>>
>> [1]
>> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3090553&group_id=115473&atid=671650
>> [2]
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/clonezilla/forums/forum/663168/topic/3903931
>> [3]
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/clonezilla/forums/forum/394751/topic/3877156

Re: [Clonezilla-live] grub2 clonezilla iso entry - starts to boot, but then "module LUKS not found in modules.dep"

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

Instead of boot from harddrive, did you try booting the CD first?
Please make sure the version you tried could be booted from a CD first.
BTW, please give Clonezilla live 20130110-raring a try, too.

Steven.

On 01/11/2013 05:40 AM, Jago Pearce wrote:
> Clonezilla starts to boot, but failed on "module LUKS not found in modules.dep"
> 
> My entry in grub2 is below. not clonezilla?
> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/clonezilla/forums/forum/663168/topic/3724625
> )
> 
> I'm using a probe-os to automatically recognisance and create entries
> for any .img files in /boot/images and I found if I rename the .iso to
> .img it appears to boot. (not enough bandwidth to download the .zip
> version of live really)
> 
> However, the LVM module fails to load so we get into a boot loop.
> 
> Perhaps I need some kind of initrd line in there? Or do I need to drop
> using os-probe and write the grub.cfg manually?
> Or perhaps this is a grub problem so I should ask there?
> 
> grub.cfg entry is below:
> 
> menuentry "Bootable floppy: clonezilla-live-20121217-quantal" {
>         insmod part_msdos
>         insmod ext2
>         set root='hd0,msdos2'
>         if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
>           search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root
> --hint-bios=hd0,msdos2 --hint-efi=hd0,msdos2
> --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos2  811fc1f5-414d-4499-a431-ff074a78e471
>         else
>           search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root
> 811fc1f5-414d-4499-a431-ff074a78e471
>         fi
>         linux16 /memdisk bigraw
>         initrd16 /images/clonezilla-live-20121217-quantal.img
> }
> 
> update:
> 
> have also tried
> 
> menuentry "Clonezilla live" {
> set isofile="/home/isos/clonezilla-live-1.2.6-24.iso"
> loopback loop $isofile
> linux (loop)/live/vmlinuz boot=live live-config noswap nolocales
> edd=on nomodeset ocs_live_run=\"ocs-live-general\"
> ocs_live_extra_param=\"\" ocs_live_keymap=\"\" ocs_live_batch=\"no\"
> ocs_lang=\"\" vga=788 ip=frommedia nosplash toram=filesystem.squashfs
> findiso=$isofile
> initrd (loop)/live/initrd.img
> }
> 
> - it boots but also gets stuck on "module LUKS not found"
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Re: [Clonezilla-live] Thermal Problems and a Solution

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

Hi Andreas,
Thanks for sharing that.
Your solution is great. For sure it a great feature we should add in the 
expert mode. Besides this, I think another option solution is to find a 
way to know the temperature is too high then accordingly reduce the CPU 
speed.
We should discuss more about this.
Thanks again.

Steven.

On 2013/1/16 上午 07:47, Andreas Winkelbauer wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> several users have reported hardware failures with clonezilla due to
> thermal problems, in particular with notebooks (see [1-3]). I also have
> seen these issues with my HP 2540p laptop. It seems that the cooling
> system of some notebooks is insufficient when the system is run at full
> CPU load for an extended period of time (this can be minutes, hours, or
> even days before a shut down to prevent overheating will occur).
>
> Since up to now no solution has been posted here, I'll explain how I
> solved the thermal problems for me. A possible solution is to set the
> CPU to a fixed, lower operating frequency using cpufreq-set from
> cpufrequtils (which is installed by default). This effectively reduces
> heat at the cost of a (relatively small) performance penalty.
> Specifically, what I did was (for a system with 4 CPUs):
>
> $ sudo cpufreq-set -c 0 -f 1600MHz
> $ sudo cpufreq-set -c 1 -f 1600MHz
> $ sudo cpufreq-set -c 2 -f 1600MHz
> $ sudo cpufreq-set -c 3 -f 1600MHz
>
> This worked for me and it should work with all reasonably modern CPUs.
> The current settings and the available frequency steps can be read using
>
> $ cpufreq-info
>
> A few remarks: cpufreq-set automatically rounds the specified frequency
> to the "nearest" available operating frequency (my laptop CPU, e.g., has
> a minimum frequency of 1.2 GHz and a maximum frequency of 2.53 GHz with
> 11 steps in total). However, I have observed that the rounding sometimes
> does not work if -f specifies exactly one of the available frequencies
> (then the next higher frequency might be used instead which seems to be
> a bug of cpufreq-set). Using the above commands, the CPU runs at a fixed
> frequency until changed again or until the next restart. Changes made by
> cpufreq-set are not permanent, i.e., the changes are lost if the system
> is rebooted.
>
> Another way to prevent overheating could be to use "cpulimit", but I
> find it less suited for this particular use case and the corresponding
> package is not installed by default.
>
> @Steven: I could provide a patch for clonezilla-live to include this in
> the expert options. However, we should think about how to implement this
> best.
>
> Cheers,
> Andreas
>
>
> [1]
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3090553&group_id=115473&atid=671650
> [2]
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/clonezilla/forums/forum/663168/topic/3903931
> [3]
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/clonezilla/forums/forum/394751/topic/3877156
>
>
>
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[Clonezilla-live] Thermal Problems and a Solution

[Andreas W. <and...@nt...>]

Dear all,

several users have reported hardware failures with clonezilla due to
thermal problems, in particular with notebooks (see [1-3]). I also have
seen these issues with my HP 2540p laptop. It seems that the cooling
system of some notebooks is insufficient when the system is run at full
CPU load for an extended period of time (this can be minutes, hours, or
even days before a shut down to prevent overheating will occur).

Since up to now no solution has been posted here, I'll explain how I
solved the thermal problems for me. A possible solution is to set the
CPU to a fixed, lower operating frequency using cpufreq-set from
cpufrequtils (which is installed by default). This effectively reduces
heat at the cost of a (relatively small) performance penalty.
Specifically, what I did was (for a system with 4 CPUs):

$ sudo cpufreq-set -c 0 -f 1600MHz
$ sudo cpufreq-set -c 1 -f 1600MHz
$ sudo cpufreq-set -c 2 -f 1600MHz
$ sudo cpufreq-set -c 3 -f 1600MHz

This worked for me and it should work with all reasonably modern CPUs.
The current settings and the available frequency steps can be read using

$ cpufreq-info

A few remarks: cpufreq-set automatically rounds the specified frequency
to the "nearest" available operating frequency (my laptop CPU, e.g., has
a minimum frequency of 1.2 GHz and a maximum frequency of 2.53 GHz with
11 steps in total). However, I have observed that the rounding sometimes
does not work if -f specifies exactly one of the available frequencies
(then the next higher frequency might be used instead which seems to be
a bug of cpufreq-set). Using the above commands, the CPU runs at a fixed
frequency until changed again or until the next restart. Changes made by
cpufreq-set are not permanent, i.e., the changes are lost if the system
is rebooted.

Another way to prevent overheating could be to use "cpulimit", but I
find it less suited for this particular use case and the corresponding
package is not installed by default.

@Steven: I could provide a patch for clonezilla-live to include this in
the expert options. However, we should think about how to implement this
best.

Cheers,
Andreas


[1]
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3090553&group_id=115473&atid=671650
[2]
http://sourceforge.net/projects/clonezilla/forums/forum/663168/topic/3903931
[3]
http://sourceforge.net/projects/clonezilla/forums/forum/394751/topic/3877156

[Clonezilla-live] grub2 clonezilla iso entry - starts to boot, but then "module LUKS not found in modules.dep"

[Jago P. <ja...@gm...>]

Clonezilla starts to boot, but failed on "module LUKS not found in modules.dep"

My entry in grub2 is below. not clonezilla?
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/clonezilla/forums/forum/663168/topic/3724625
)

I'm using a probe-os to automatically recognisance and create entries
for any .img files in /boot/images and I found if I rename the .iso to
.img it appears to boot. (not enough bandwidth to download the .zip
version of live really)

However, the LVM module fails to load so we get into a boot loop.

Perhaps I need some kind of initrd line in there? Or do I need to drop
using os-probe and write the grub.cfg manually?
Or perhaps this is a grub problem so I should ask there?

grub.cfg entry is below:

menuentry "Bootable floppy: clonezilla-live-20121217-quantal" {
        insmod part_msdos
        insmod ext2
        set root='hd0,msdos2'
        if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
          search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root
--hint-bios=hd0,msdos2 --hint-efi=hd0,msdos2
--hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos2  811fc1f5-414d-4499-a431-ff074a78e471
        else
          search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root
811fc1f5-414d-4499-a431-ff074a78e471
        fi
        linux16 /memdisk bigraw
        initrd16 /images/clonezilla-live-20121217-quantal.img
}

update:

have also tried

menuentry "Clonezilla live" {
set isofile="/home/isos/clonezilla-live-1.2.6-24.iso"
loopback loop $isofile
linux (loop)/live/vmlinuz boot=live live-config noswap nolocales
edd=on nomodeset ocs_live_run=\"ocs-live-general\"
ocs_live_extra_param=\"\" ocs_live_keymap=\"\" ocs_live_batch=\"no\"
ocs_lang=\"\" vga=788 ip=frommedia nosplash toram=filesystem.squashfs
findiso=$isofile
initrd (loop)/live/initrd.img
}

- it boots but also gets stuck on "module LUKS not found"

Re: [Clonezilla-live] when restoring a ubuntu, why clonezilla change BCD on win7???

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

mmm..
Remove the "-g auto", since what you want is for sda7 only. i.e.
sudo /opt/drbl/sbin/ocs-sr -c -r -k -p true restoreparts 
2012-11-22-15-img-person-ubuntu sda7

Steven.


On 2012/12/19 上午 11:07, lhs lhs wrote:
> I tried
> sudo /opt/drbl/sbin/ocs-sr -g auto  -c -r -k -p true restoreparts
> 2012-11-22-15-img-person-ubuntu sda7
>
> the BCD in win7 still being modified and can not boot.
>
>
>
> 2012/12/1 Steven Shiau <st...@nc... <mailto:st...@nc...>>
>
>     Try to enter expert mode, and deselect the option "-e1".
>     Please let us know the results.
>     Thanks.
>
>     Steven.
>     On 11/22/2012 06:06 PM, lhs lhs wrote:
>      > hi, guys:
>      >
>      >    I'm new in clonezilla live.
>      >    We have 100 pc with the same hardwares. All installed win7 on
>      > partition C. we want to install ubuntu on all those pc. So we install
>      > ubuntu on one pc, then use clonezilla to save the ubuntu partition as
>      > an image. Then we boot other pc into clonezilla live, using the
>     command:
>      >  sudo /opt/drbl/sbin/ocs-sr -g auto -e1 auto -e2 -c -r -j2 -k -p true
>      > restoreparts 2012-11-22-15-img-person-ubuntu sda7
>      >
>      > to restore the ubuntu.
>      > After it finished, the ubuntu can run, but the win7 can not boot
>     anymore.
>      >
>      > I found that clonezilla change the BCD on partition C, so win7 cannot
>      > run. after I run the win7pe to autofix the BCD, win7 can run again.
>      >
>      > So, my question is:
>      >    Is it possible not to change the BCD when I restore the ubuntu?
>      >    further more, why clonezilla want to change BCD? what it change?
>      >
>      > thanks,
>      > Best Regard.
>      >
>      >
>      > manjusaka~
>      >
>      >
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