Re: [Clonezilla-live] Clonezilla-live Digest, Vol 61, Issue 6

[Mark E. <m.d...@sh...>]

Hi Steven,

I had thought that Clonezilla would install grub to the partition I 
specified (sda1) after restoring the image to the disk. That is why I 
used the option '-g /dev/sda1'. It seems that the option '-g auto' 
works, but it installs grub to the MBR and that's not what I want.

However, I have written a script to install grub to sda1 post-restore, 
which works OK. In that case I leave out the -g option in the osc-sr 
command line.

Thanks,
Mark


On 20/04/12 13:05, clo...@li... wrote:
>
>
> "-g /dev/sda1" means
> /dev/sda1 is the partition where /boot/grub exists.
> It does not mean the MBR.
> In you case, try not to use "-g /dev/sda1", i.e.
> /opt/drbl/sbin/ocs-sr -e1 auto -e2 -c -r -j2 -k -p true -t
> restoreparts 2012-04-05-13-img sda1
>
> Steven.
>
> On 2012/4/11 ?? 05:16, Mark Ellerby wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am using clonezilla-live to backup a linux OS to an image, then
>> restore it to another hard disk. (Testing in preparation for, hopefully,
>> a network installation onto many PCs)
>>
>> I install Ubuntu 10.04 LTS to the disk at /dev/sda. sda1 is root and
>> sda2 is swap. Grub goes on /dev/sda1, NOT the MBR. (I have good reasons
>> for doing this). Then I boot Clonezilla Live via PXE. I am able then to
>> image sda1 to a temporary hard disk.
>>
>> Then I swap out the source hard disk for a blank one, and partition it
>> similarly to the source one (sda1 root, sda2 swap). Following that I
>> boot Clonezilla Live and enter the command shell. I mount the disk with
>> the image with it onto /home/partimag.
>>
>> I run this command next:
>>
>> /opt/drbl/sbin/ocs-sr -e1 auto -e2 -c -r -j2 -k -p true -g /dev/sda1 -t
>> restoreparts 2012-04-05-13-img sda1
>>
>> In theory grub should be installed to /dev/sda1. However, I get the
>> following message:
>>
>> The boot loader on /dev/sda is not grub. Skip running grub-install!
>>
>> I am unable to find out why this is so. Nothing in /var/log has anything
>> grub-related in there, so far as I can tell.
>>
>> I can manually install grub to the root partition by doing this:
>>
>> mkdir /a
>> mount /dev/sda1 /a
>> mount --bind /dev /a/dev
>> mount --bind /dev/pts /a/dev/pts
>> mount --bind /proc /a/proc
>> mount --bind /sys /a/sys
>> chroot /a bin/bash
>> [chroot] grub-install --force /dev/sda1
>>
>> It's not ideal, because I'd like to be able to boot Clonezilla and
>> restore images automatically. Is there any way I can get the ocs-sr
>> command do what I want?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> Mark
>>


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