[Clonezilla-live] fsck.ext3: Unable to resolve 'LABEL=boot'

[Davidson H. <DH...@Qu...>]

I am using CloneZilla to image a hard drive.  This hard drive is dual-boot for Fedora 5 and Fedora 11, sharing a boot partition.

The boot partition has the Fedora 5 version of grub.



The partition layout is:

/dev/sda1           /boot

/dev/sda2           / for FC5

/dev/sda3           swap

/dev/sda4           extended

/dev/sda5           / for F11

/dev/sda6           /home



On the system/drive *from* which the image is made, all works as expected.  I can boot into either Fedora 5 or Fedora 11, and either of those OS's can access the /home partition with no problem.



I then restored the disk image back onto the same system with the same hard drive.  All was OK.



I then restored the disk image back onto the same system with a different hard drive, but the same model (presumably identical hardware).  The problem does occur.



If I restore on a different system, but to the original hard drive, things work.



After restoring the different harddrive, I boot into Fedora 5 and all is well.  Everything is properly accessible.  As expected, I get the following output from running blkid:



/dev/sda3: TYPE="swap" LABEL="swap" UUID="4167d8f6-e6a6-422f-b7f3-b63402b71b1e"

/dev/sda2: LABEL="/" UUID="ea61bbcb-b692-416f-96fe-3915614a2d4c" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"

/dev/sda1: LABEL="boot" UUID="8b50e034-d9c0-4295-bade-bde385368c8d" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"

/dev/sda5: UUID="93759d5a-452d-4fbe-8725-cccb71e2dc24" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"

/dev/sda6: UUID="7a78f920-a0ac-4706-9b80-2e3a3b69627e" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" LABEL="home"



Output of ls -ld /dev/sda*:

brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 0 Sep 17 09:20 sda

brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 1 Sep 17 09:20 sda1

brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 2 Sep 17 09:20 sda2

brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 3 Sep 17 09:20 sda3

brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 4 Sep 17 09:20 sda4

brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 5 Sep 17 09:20 sda5

brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 6 Sep 17 09:20 sda6



However, when I boot into Fedora 11, the boot fails with the diagnostic:

    fsck.ext3: Unable to resolve 'LABEL=boot'



dumping me into the shell, from which I see:



"fdisk -l" output:

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System

/dev/sda1               1          13      104391   83  Linux

/dev/sda2              14        2563    20482875   83  Linux

/dev/sda3            2564        3073     4096575   82  Linux swap / Solaris

/dev/sda4            3074       19457   131604480    5  Extended

/dev/sda5            3074        5684    20971520   83  Linux

/dev/sda6            5684       19457   110632927+  83  Linux



blkid output:

/dev/sda5: UUID="0008f94193759d5a-452d-4fbe-8725-cccb71e2dc24" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"

/dev/sda6: LABEL="home" UUID="7a78f920-a0ac-4706-9b80-2e3a3b69627e " SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"



Output of ls -ld /dev/sda*:

brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 0 2009-09-17 09:42 sda

brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 5 2009-09-17 09:42 sda5

brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 6 2009-09-17 09:42 sda6



It's worthy of note that partitions 4, 5, and 6 were created during the installation of Fedora 11.



I will also note that if I remove the F11 /etc/fstab entry for the boot partition, that F11 boots OK, but still only recognizes sda5 and

sda6 as partitions.



So, I am puzzled:

1.  My configuration works from the system before imaging.

    Both Fedora 5 and Fedora 11 recognize all partitions.



2.  My configuration works from the system after imaging,

    for Fedora 5, but not Fedora 11.

    Fedora 11 is recognizing only two of the partitions.



3.  My configuration works if I restore the exact same hard drive

    (not just the same hard drive model), both both F5 and F11.



Conclusion: ???

This is a hard one, but is the imaging process perhaps not properly initializing some portion of the destination hard drive (e.g., maybe by zeroing it) in a way that Fedora 5 does not care about, but Fedora 11 does.



Any help appreciated!