Re: [Clonezilla-live] LVM doesn't work?

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

Hi,
How about share the vmware disk which you have tested with us?
It's easier for us to reproduce that problem.
Thanks.

Steven.

Michael Mohr wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having trouble imaging Linux machines using Clonezilla.  I'm hoping
> that someone here can help; here is the situation:
> 
> (1) Environment
> I've installed Clonezilla on our internal PXE server with an NFS-backed
> root filesystem.  I have a test laptop with Fedora 11 preinstalled which
> I am using for testing.  Although Clonezilla is not currently configured
> to fetch images over HTTP, I have also tested hosting the squashfs image
> over http and come up with identical results.
> 
> (2) Setup
> I boot the test laptop using PXE and am presented with the Clonezilla
> greeting screen.  I select the following options:
> 
> "Don't touch keymap" --> Start_Clonezilla --> device-image -->
> nfs_server --> [input NFS server DNS name] --> [input NFS export] -->
> press Enter to continue (7.5TB are free) --> Beginner --> savedisk -->
> select name ("mike" in case it matters) --> choose "sda" --> proceed
> through final verification screens, pressing Enter or typing "y" where
> asked
> 
> (3) Failure
> It backs up the boot partition, then moves on to sda2 which contains
> LVM.  It prints out "Parsing LVM layout" followed by "Parsing logical
> volumes" and finally "Saving the VG config" at which point the console
> freezes and will not respond to signals (^Z, ^C).
> 
> The good folks in #fedora on freenode confirmed that Fedora 11 uses LVM2
> (since it clearly states on the Clonezilla website that LVM1 is
> unsupported).  I have also tested this exact same procedure with VMWare
> and saw an identical failure.  I tested with both of the following
> archives:
> 
> clonezilla-live-1.2.2-26.zip  clonezilla-live-1.2.2-30.zip
> 
> I'm not sure what could be going wrong here.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mike
> 
> 
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