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

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

On 04/24/2012 05:23 PM, Mark Ellerby wrote:
> 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.
Sure! That's a good solution, too.

Steven.
> 
> 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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