Re: [Clonezilla-live] emergency mode ... Press Enter to continue (pi4 Fedora 38 clone)

[Antonio O. <oli...@gm...>]

On Saturday, May 6, 2023, Steven Shiau <st...@na...> wrote:

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> On 5/4/23 10:51, Antonio Olivares wrote:
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> On Wednesday, May 3, 2023, Steven Shiau <st...@na...> wrote:
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>> So which version of Clonezilla live did you use?
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> Latest version.
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> Please let us know the exact file you have downloaded and used, e.g.,
> "clonezilla-live-3.1.0-22-amd64.zip".
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The amd64 version
clonezilla-live-3.1.0-22-amd64.iso

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> How did you use that?
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> Created an image of a 32 GB pny SD card with previous version.
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> Please let us know your steps in detail so that we can help you.
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> Used a 64 bit SD card ADATA brand from
> device - image
> restore image
> Used the same ratio -k option
> swapped  the SDcard systemd reports the error message
> Have tried same size 32GB SD cards same brand and I get error messags that
> the card is not the same size.  I have only succeeded on 1 of 4 or 5
> attempts and with RaspiOS as with Fedora I get that root account locked and
> cannot login but error message.
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> So it looks the OS you were cloning is about Raspberry PI? It's ARM-based,
> but the file system should be OK if you put the SD card to x86 machine.
> As for the "root account locked", did you mean you boot the restored
> RaspiOS and it's locked? Not booting Clonezilla live, and it's locked,
> right?
>

I saved an image of a Fedora 38 aarch64 of a raspberry pi 4 machine.   I
restored it to another SDcard, but when booting it up I encounter that
message.

I have successfully cloned raspiOS.before but sometimes have encountered
problems with same size sdcards  as clonezilla has text repeating that the
contents do not fit on same size sdcard.  32GB pny SDcard, reports 31.9 GB
.

I use a 64bit Dell XPS 8940 machine to do the cloning.  I had cloned Linux
machines, windows machines but not FreeBSD machines(hot booting problems),
tried rescue with DVD but no success so I gave up trying.  I have read the
Fedora documention but still encounter the same problem.

I check the contents of the cloned SDcard and the home directories are
there, but the contents of the downloads folder report input/output error.
Fedora no longer requires su - account and one uses sudo.  I do not
understand why root account is locked.  I had not had this issue before.

The raspiOS boots correctly, the Fedora 38 boots correctly, but the cloned
one returns the bootup problems mentioned.  No matter what I try I get same
error message.  Fedora uses BTRFS in case it is important.

Best Regards,


Antonio

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> If so, then maybe you have to find where the RaspiOS has such a mechanism.
> Sometimes it uses hardware-specific ID in the /etc/fstab so that it can not
> be cloned. You have to change that to software-based so that it can be
> cloned, for example.
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> Steven
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> Best Regards,
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> Antonio.
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>>
>> Steven
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>> On 5/3/23 22:41, Antonio Olivares wrote:
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>>> Cannot open access to console, the root account is locked.
>>> See sulogin(8) man page for more details.
>>>
>>> Press Enter to continue.
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>>> I press Enter
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>>> and I get
>>>
>>> Reloading system configuration
>>> Starting default.target
>>> You are in emergency mode.  After logging in ...
>>>
>>>
>>> Press Enter to continue.
>>>
>>>
>>> The loop is endless and nomatter what I try I get the same message.
>>>
>>> In fedora docs,
>>> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/root-account-locked/
>>>
>>> I do not have a rescue live/cd/dvd for the pi4 machine.  How can I
>>> bypass this error?  Thank you in advance
>>>
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>>
>>>
>>> Antonio
>>>
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