Re: [Clonezilla-live] Restoring a CentOS disk to VmWare : help needed

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

Matthieu,
Thanks for sharing this conclusion.

Steven.

Matthieu Gaillet wrote:
>
>
> For the record : the problem was that the default disk emulation of 
> vmware (at least Fusion, mac) is SCSI, while the originating machine 
> was an IDE one. Looks like centos wasn't equipped with the necessary 
> drivers to handle the SCSI interface.
>  
> Solution 1 : change the interface type to IDE and restore again
> Solution 2 : add the drivers needed (not tried)
>  
> Thanks for the help Steven !
>  
> Matthieu
>  
>  
>
> Début du message réexpédié :
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>> *De : *Steven Shiau <st...@nc... <mailto:st...@nc...>>
>> *Date : *1 juillet 2009 10:01:12 GMT+02:00
>> *À : *Matthieu Gaillet <mat...@ga... <mailto:mat...@ga...>>
>> *Objet : **Rép : [Clonezilla-live] Restoring a CentOS disk to VmWare 
>> : help needed*
>>  
>> Yes, vmlinuz will be loaded, then when initrd.img is loaded, and when 
>> it tries to find the root partition, it can not find, since SCSI 
>> driver is not found in initrd.img, so it won't be able to mount the 
>> root partition on SCSI disk. Therefore it shows you kernel panic.
>>
>> Steven.
>>
>> Matthieu Gaillet wrote:
>>> Would it boot anyway until the Kernel panic ? Even without those 
>>> drivers ? I'll try to check if they are presents and to install them 
>>> if needed.
>>>
>>> Le 01-juil.-09 à 08:46, Steven Shiau a écrit :
>>>
>>>> Hi Matthieu,
>>>>
>>>> Matthieu Gaillet wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Nope, the contrary :
>>>>>
>>>>> * disk image taken on Physical IDE --> restored on vmware SCSI 
>>>>> emulation (default setting) =>* doesn't work (panic)*
>>>>> * disk image taken on Physical IDE --> restored on vmware IDE 
>>>>> emulation --> *works !*
>>>> That makes sense... Since maybe your initrd of OS taken from IDE 
>>>> disk does not include the driver for SCSI device.
>>>>
>>>> Steven.
>>>>>
>>>>> Matthieu
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Le 01-juil.-09 à 04:39, Steven Shiau a écrit :
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Matthieu,
>>>>>> Did you mean you installed CentOS on your IDE in the VMware 
>>>>>> machine, and it works ?
>>>>>> But if CentOS is installed on SCSI disk, Clonezilla failed to 
>>>>>> restore ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Steven.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Matthieu Gaillet wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Steven,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I tried using an IDE drive emulation on the VMware machine : IT 
>>>>>>> WORKS !
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Any idea ? Should it work ? How could I make it work in SCSI 
>>>>>>> anyway ?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Matthieu
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Début du message réexpédié :
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> *De : *Matthieu Gaillet <mat...@ga... 
>>>>>>>> <mailto:mat...@ga...>>
>>>>>>>> *Date : *30 juin 2009 09:22:46 GMT+02:00
>>>>>>>> *À : *Steven Shiau <st...@nc... <mailto:st...@nc...>>
>>>>>>>> *Objet : **Rép : [Clonezilla-live] Restoring a CentOS disk to 
>>>>>>>> VmWare : help needed*
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi Steven,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks for your answer. I didn't saw any other error messages, 
>>>>>>>> but it is possible that I missed one of them... Is there a log 
>>>>>>>> of the activities written somewhere on the ramdisk ?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Regarding the image dir : it is stored on an external hardrive 
>>>>>>>> that I access through Samba at restore time.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Here is the result of the find command :
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Maybe a lead : the original physical machine is equipped with 
>>>>>>>> IDE / ATA drives. Vmware presents a SCSI interface... Could it 
>>>>>>>> be the origin of the problem ?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Matthieu
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Le 29-juin-09 à 17:03, Steven Shiau a écrit :
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Matthieu,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Matthieu Gaillet wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I'm trying to restore a physical installation of Centos to a 
>>>>>>>>>> VMWare
>>>>>>>>>> virtual machine.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I received the dreaded "Running:
>>>>>>>>>> grub-install-no-floppy-root-directory=/tmp/hd_img.QiFQFv /dev/sda
>>>>>>>>>> grub-probe: error: Cannot open '/boot/grub/devise_map'
>>>>>>>>>> /usr/sbin/grub-install: line 374: [: =: unary operator 
>>>>>>>>>> expected" error
>>>>>>>>>> message.
>>>>>>>>> This is a harmless error. Check this:
>>>>>>>>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=513216
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> BTW, when you saved or restored the image, did you see any error
>>>>>>>>> messages other than the above one ?
>>>>>>>>> How about the image dir ? Could you please run:
>>>>>>>>> find /home/partimag/$YOUR_IMAGE -print
>>>>>>>>> (Replace $YOUR_IMAGE with your image name)
>>>>>>>>> then post the results ?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Steven.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Anyhow, when I try to boot the machine, I received a Kernel 
>>>>>>>>>> Panic :
>>>>>>>>>>
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