Re: [Drbl-user] ubuntu package update error

[Les M. <les...@gm...>]

On 7/28/2011 1:52 AM, Steven Shiau wrote:
>
>> I thought earlier clonezilla versions let the client drop to a shell and
>> then return to the menu (so I could have fixed the broken nfs mount
>> manually).  Is that option gone,
> If you mean Clonezilla live, no. You still can enter command line prompt
> anytime. Or you can change to another virtual console by Ctrl-Alt-F2,
> Ctrl-Alt-F3... Ctrl-Alt-F6.

I mean the clonezilla that gets PXE-booted from the drbl server if you 
just use the default setup (no iso image).  The client doesn't seem to 
have VT's enabled.

>    and if so is there a client command
>> line that would put you back to the menu if you need to get back after
>> some manual operations?
> If you stay in the virtual console 1 (Ctrl-Alt-F1), you can run "exit"
> to logout and it will automatically give you Clonezilla menu. If it's on
> virtual console 2 to 6, you can run:
> 1. sudo -i
> 2. clonezilla
> to start the clonezilla menu.

This doesn't work either - you can 'cancel' from the clonezilla menu and 
drop to a single-user mode root password prompt, but 'exit' doesn't go 
back and clonezilla doesn't work as a command.   I don't really need 
this at the moment, but it would have helped when the client wasn't 
automatically doing the nfs mount for the image location - and I could 
see it being useful to be able to manually switch to a different mount 
for alternative images.

Would I get this if I used a clonezilla-live image in the DRBL setup?


>> Also, the updated version seems to ignore the 'enter' key to activate
>> the boot choice, although the arrows work to highlight it.  Am I missing
>> a setting for the keyboard type or something?
> Sorry, I could not understand this issue. Could you please describe more?

This turned out to be related to choosing the 'newest available' kernel 
from the repository instead of the one running on the host.  I'm not 
sure what the actual cause was, but repeating the setup with the stock 
kernel fixed it.  The network speed seems slow on HP DL series servers 
and I thought a newer kernel might have better support for their NICs.

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   Les Mikesell
    les...@gm...