On Sunday 09 October 2005 22:27, Josh Fisher wrote: > Sounds like you are using the 1.36.3 stable version of bacula-rescue, > which will not work with a 2.6.x kernel. You need to grab the latest > 1.37.x development version of bacula-rescue from CVS. You do not have to > use 1.37.x versions of the other bacula programs, just the bacula-rescue > module. You will need the source for 1.36.3 installed and configured > before making the bacula-rescue stuff. > > I have made a CD-R using bacula-rescue 1.37.40 compiled against the > 1.36.3 source. I believe the 1.36.3 source is only needed to make the > statically linked bacula-fd daemon. In any case, I was able to create a > rescue CD-R under Fedora Core 4, boot from it, reformat the partitions, > mount the partitions, start networking, start the statically linked > bacula-fd and then run a restore job from bconsole on another machine > and restore the machine. Once all files are restored it is necessary to > install grub in order for the restored machine to boot. > > So, yes, it works. There are scripts on the rescue CD to perform most of > the tasks. The script to copy the bacula-fd daemon and conf file to the > newly formatted partition did not work for me and I had to do that > manually, but hey, it worked.
Thanks for the nice response and the confirmation that the 1.37.40 rescue does work. I'm pleased to hear that someone other than myself has got it to work. :-) Do you happen to remember exactly what went wrong in the script to copy bacula-fd and the conf file? > > Josh Fisher > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Gordon Larsen wrote: > >Has anyone tried/been able to build a rescue CD that works with Fedora > > yet? The build scripts still look for the deprecated modules.conf and > > raidstart on my system, neither of which are used any longer (replaced by > >modprobe.conf/modprobe.conf.dist and mdadm). I can build a CD, but a > > kernel panic happens when trying to mount the root file system when > > starting up. > > > >Thanks muchly, > > > >Gordon Larsen > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------- > >This SF.Net email is sponsored by: > >Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, > >and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl > >_______________________________________________ > >Bacula-users mailing list > >Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, > and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Best regards, Kern ("> /\ V_V ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
