I've been using Clonezilla on our PCs here for a few years - nothing too flash just basic whole drive imaging.
We have now got a suite of Macs and I was pleased to see that Clonezilla will work on those too. I have burned a CD(!) and setup my target mac as I want. I've booted from the CD and gone through the normal steps to create and save my image. Whats really confusing to me now is that none of the other Macs will boot using the CD. They all bring up the Clonezilla splash screen and allow you to pick the mode, then they hang. Every one. They are identical to the target machine which will boot using the CD perfectly every time. I've tried resetting the PRAM and SMC with no joy. I really dont have too much knowledge about Macs and find them frustrating to deal with at the best of times.
Anyone got any ideas? Thanks.
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I'm booting from a clonezilla live zesty USB drive on a Dell system, this
is a headless system, I've gotten part of the app to display on the console
and the VGA but only to a point
Kenneth Hughes Broadcom Limited WSD FS/FAST
4380 Ziegler Road, Fort Collins, CO 80525
Kenneth.hughes@broadcom.com kenneth.hughes@broadcom.com 970-288-3117
Please try different types of USB flash drive to see if this issue really always reproducible. If so, then we are sure it's software issue. Otherwise, very often it's hardware issue.
Steven
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When I boot to it and have the VGA and serial attached I can see the
application continue to work on the KVM, but it doesn't redirect to the
serial console that I need
I am testing this on a system that has a video card before I test on the
production system that does not have a video card, not sure if having the
video card installed in the system is the reason that it wont redirect to
the serial console
Kenneth Hughes Broadcom Limited WSD FS/FAST
4380 Ziegler Road, Fort Collins, CO 80525
Kenneth.hughes@broadcom.com kenneth.hughes@broadcom.com 970-288-3117
Please try different types of USB flash drive to see if this issue really
always reproducible. If so, then we are sure it's software issue.
Otherwise, very often it's hardware issue.
Well I've fixed my problem but I'm still very confused.
When I manually upgraded one of the macs to Sierra from El Capitan, suddenly it would recognise the Clonezilla cd. I tried again an El Capitan mac and sure enough it would freeze. Eventually I just upgraded all the macs manually then was able to image the whole suite.
All I can summise is that there is a firmware upgrade in the Sierra installer.
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I've been using Clonezilla on our PCs here for a few years - nothing too flash just basic whole drive imaging.
We have now got a suite of Macs and I was pleased to see that Clonezilla will work on those too. I have burned a CD(!) and setup my target mac as I want. I've booted from the CD and gone through the normal steps to create and save my image. Whats really confusing to me now is that none of the other Macs will boot using the CD. They all bring up the Clonezilla splash screen and allow you to pick the mode, then they hang. Every one. They are identical to the target machine which will boot using the CD perfectly every time. I've tried resetting the PRAM and SMC with no joy. I really dont have too much knowledge about Macs and find them frustrating to deal with at the best of times.
Anyone got any ideas? Thanks.
Not sure if it's the CD conflicting with the Macs hardware. Did you try to put Clonezilla live on USB flash drive then boot it?
Steven
I'm booting from a USB
Kenneth Hughes
Broadcom Limited WSD FS/FAST
4380 Ziegler Road, Fort Collins, CO 80525
Kenneth.hughes@broadcom.com kenneth.hughes@broadcom.com 970-288-3117
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 6:06 AM, Steven Shiau steven_shiau@users.sf.net
wrote:
I'm booting from a clonezilla live zesty USB drive on a Dell system, this
is a headless system, I've gotten part of the app to display on the console
and the VGA but only to a point
Kenneth Hughes
Broadcom Limited WSD FS/FAST
4380 Ziegler Road, Fort Collins, CO 80525
Kenneth.hughes@broadcom.com kenneth.hughes@broadcom.com 970-288-3117
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 7:37 AM, Kenneth Hughes hugheskw@users.sf.net
wrote:
Please try different types of USB flash drive to see if this issue really always reproducible. If so, then we are sure it's software issue. Otherwise, very often it's hardware issue.
Steven
When I boot to it and have the VGA and serial attached I can see the
application continue to work on the KVM, but it doesn't redirect to the
serial console that I need
I am testing this on a system that has a video card before I test on the
production system that does not have a video card, not sure if having the
video card installed in the system is the reason that it wont redirect to
the serial console
Kenneth Hughes
Broadcom Limited WSD FS/FAST
4380 Ziegler Road, Fort Collins, CO 80525
Kenneth.hughes@broadcom.com kenneth.hughes@broadcom.com 970-288-3117
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 7:48 AM, Steven Shiau steven_shiau@users.sf.net
wrote:
If you need serial console output, you have to put more boot parameters for Clonezilla live, like:
live-gett console=ttyS1,38400n81 ocs_live_run_tty=/dev/ttyS1
This is mentioned in:
http://clonezilla.org/fine-print-live-doc.php?path=clonezilla-live/doc/99_Misc/00_live-boot-parameters.doc
Steven
Well I've fixed my problem but I'm still very confused.
When I manually upgraded one of the macs to Sierra from El Capitan, suddenly it would recognise the Clonezilla cd. I tried again an El Capitan mac and sure enough it would freeze. Eventually I just upgraded all the macs manually then was able to image the whole suite.
All I can summise is that there is a firmware upgrade in the Sierra installer.
@Simon,
Thanks for sharing that. Yes, sometimes firmware/hardware is the culprit...
Steven