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

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

Hi Michael,
Thanks for providing such an image for me to test. However, I can _NOT_
reproduce the problem here... It just works here. Very weird... I
attached a screen copy/paste file which contains the whole process I
have done.
The VMware I tested here is Workstation 6.5.3 build-185404, 32-bit
version. I use Clonezilla live 1.2.2-31 to test it here.
Basically I use most of the default settings, I only different I did is
 to save the image on the NFS server. Maybe that's different to yours?
Where did you save the image to?

Steven.

Michael Mohr wrote:
> To facilitate testing I created a CentOS 5.3 VM, trying to stick to the
> defaults as closely as possible.  The three items I changed during setup
> were:
> 
> (1) I chose to "remove all partitions on the selected drive" during
> partitioning;
> (2) I de-selected Gnome from the meta-package list;
> (3) I set the root password to "zmanda"
> 
> All other options were left at default values.  I rebooted the VM once
> to ensure that the operating system booted and that everything was
> working as expected.  I turned off SELinux and disabled the firewall
> during the firstboot setup in case it matters, then gracefully shut it
> down.  I've tarred up this VM for you to test with;  I expect it to be
> available within approximately 1 hour here:
> 
> ftp://ftp.zmanda.com/outgoing/cz-centos53-test.tar.gz
> 
> I am aware that clonezilla 1.2.2-31 was released this morning, so I
> downloaded it.  This time, instead of setting up PXE booting, I
> downloaded and burned the CD ISO image from sourceforge (which I had
> hoped would be better supported):
> 
> $ md5sum clonezilla-live-1.2.2-31.iso 
> a1f4cc6669717f96de62fc5ee4396484  clonezilla-live-1.2.2-31.iso
> 
> I then proceeded in the same manner I described in my original email
> through the selection boxes and ended up with precisely the same results
> -- clonezilla hangs without an error message while it is scanning the
> VGs.
> 
> On the off chance that something was wrong with the NFS server, network,
> or other hardware I then consecutively installed and tested backup and
> recovery for the following operating systems:
> 
> * Windows XP
> * Windows Server 2003 R2
> 
> Both of the above operating systems were successfully imaged by
> Clonezilla to the NFS server.  After the imaging was complete,  I zeroed
> the first 500MB of the hard disk with 'dd' (using systemrescuecd).  I
> then rebooted into Clonezilla and restored the saved image from NFS.  I
> was subsequently able to reboot each machine into Windows and load
> google/yahoo in IE.
> 
> Imaging with LVM present has now failed on three different physical
> machines (2 laptops and one rack mount server) as well as several VMWare
> virtual machines.  The tested operating systems include several recent
> versions of Fedora and CentOS.
> 
> I've attached a screen capture depicting the point at which Clonezilla
> fails to this email.  Please let me know if there is something I can do
> differently to help resolve this.
> 
> TIA,
> Mike
> 
> On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 09:23 +0800, Steven Shiau wrote:
>> Hi,
>> How about share the vmware disk which you have tested with us?
>> It's easier for us to reproduce that problem.
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Steven.
>>
> 
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