Re: [Clonezilla-live] Grub problem at restoration.

[Giorgos <gio...@gm...>]

2009/6/5 Steven Shiau <st...@nc...>:
> Giorgos,
> Maybe modify your /boot/grub/menu.lst, i.e. change the line:
> default         saved
> to
> default         0
>
> Then give it a try again ?
>
> Steven.
>
>

Hi! :-)
Done! Nothing changed.
Grub still trying to read from floppy.

However, the screen output at image restoration from live cd was
different this time:

Cloned succesfully/
Time elapsed....(some statistic numbers  here, 152.05sec etc.)
Finished unicast restoring image ubuntu to /dev/sda1.
******
Restoring the first 446 bytes at MBR data for sda....done!
******
EXT4-FS: barriers enabled
Kjournal d2 starting: pid 5043, dev sda 1:8, commit interval 5 sec.
EXT4-FS: on sda1, internal journal on sda 1:8
EXT4-FS: delayed allocation enabled
EXT4-FS: file extents enabled
EXT4-FS: mballoc enabled
EXT4-FS: mounted filesystem sda1 with ordered data mode
EXT4-FS: mballoc: 0 blocks 0 reqs (0success)
EXT4-FS: mballoc: 0 extents scanned 0 goal hits 2^M hits 0 breaks 0lost
EXT4-FS: mballoc: 0 generated and it took 0
EXT4-FS: mballoc: 0 proallocates, 0 discarded
found grub partition: /dev/sda1
which is on the restored partition list (sda1)
will run grub-install later.
EXT4-FS: barriers enabled
Kjournal d2 starting: pid 5973, dev sda 1:8, commit interval 5 sec.
EXT4-FS: delayed allocation enabled
EXT4-FS: file extents enabled
EXT4-FS: mballoc enabled
EXT4-FS: mounted filesystem sda1 with ordered data mode
Running


Well, that's it! Here stopped and nothing else happened (no screen or
disk activity).
Then, after passing ~10 minutes, I pressed ctrl-alt-del.
Then followed the term signal, flashing reboot etc.

Sigh! :-(
I was reading today some pages for ext4 fs.
 I read at ext4 wiki, that installing grub on an ext4 partition is not
recommended.
Unfortunately, that's exactly what I've done! :-(
Ubuntu uses a patch to boot from ext4, and I have the suspicion that
maybe this is the reason for my grub problems.

The exact text is:
"Right now there's not a stable version of grub that supports booting
a kernel from a ext4 partition. It's recommended that you keep /boot
in a ext3 partition.
.
.
.
The grub package in Ubuntu 9.04 and later includes a patch to support
booting from ext4 filesystems (see bug 314350)."

The page is there:
http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Howto

I think that the problem is the ext4 grub ubuntu patch. If so, I'm
thinking to roll back to ext3.

Giorgos. :-)