Hi Giorgos, Giorgos wrote: > 2009/6/5 Steven Shiau <[email protected]>: > >> Giorgos, >> Maybe modify your /boot/grub/menu.lst, i.e. change the line: >> default saved >> to >> default 0 >> >> Then give it a try again ? >> >> Steven. >> >> >> > > Hi! :-) > Done! Nothing changed. > Grub still trying to read from floppy. > > However, the screen output at image restoration from live cd was > different this time: > > Cloned succesfully/ > Time elapsed....(some statistic numbers here, 152.05sec etc.) > Finished unicast restoring image ubuntu to /dev/sda1. > ****** > Restoring the first 446 bytes at MBR data for sda....done! > ****** > EXT4-FS: barriers enabled > Kjournal d2 starting: pid 5043, dev sda 1:8, commit interval 5 sec. > EXT4-FS: on sda1, internal journal on sda 1:8 > EXT4-FS: delayed allocation enabled > EXT4-FS: file extents enabled > EXT4-FS: mballoc enabled > EXT4-FS: mounted filesystem sda1 with ordered data mode > EXT4-FS: mballoc: 0 blocks 0 reqs (0success) > EXT4-FS: mballoc: 0 extents scanned 0 goal hits 2^M hits 0 breaks 0lost > EXT4-FS: mballoc: 0 generated and it took 0 > EXT4-FS: mballoc: 0 proallocates, 0 discarded > found grub partition: /dev/sda1 > which is on the restored partition list (sda1) > will run grub-install later. > EXT4-FS: barriers enabled > Kjournal d2 starting: pid 5973, dev sda 1:8, commit interval 5 sec. > EXT4-FS: delayed allocation enabled > EXT4-FS: file extents enabled > EXT4-FS: mballoc enabled > EXT4-FS: mounted filesystem sda1 with ordered data mode > Running > > > Well, that's it! Here stopped and nothing else happened (no screen or > disk activity). > Then, after passing ~10 minutes, I pressed ctrl-alt-del. > Then followed the term signal, flashing reboot etc. > > Sigh! :-( > I was reading today some pages for ext4 fs. > I read at ext4 wiki, that installing grub on an ext4 partition is not > recommended. > Unfortunately, that's exactly what I've done! :-( > Ubuntu uses a patch to boot from ext4, and I have the suspicion that > maybe this is the reason for my grub problems. > > The exact text is: > "Right now there's not a stable version of grub that supports booting > a kernel from a ext4 partition. It's recommended that you keep /boot > in a ext3 partition. > . > That's true. Now the official grub does not support that. > . > . > The grub package in Ubuntu 9.04 and later includes a patch to support > booting from ext4 filesystems (see bug 314350)." > > The page is there: > http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Howto > > I think that the problem is the ext4 grub ubuntu patch. If so, I'm > thinking to roll back to ext3. > Yes, I think that's better. Although here we tested experimental Clonezilla live 20090517-jaunty to restore a Jaunty with /boot on ext4 file system without any problem, yet it does not mean all will work.
Steven. > Giorgos. :-) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises > looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest > innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and > enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. > Go to: http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get > _______________________________________________ > Clonezilla-live mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clonez > -- Steven Shiau <steven _at_ nchc org tw> <steven _at_ stevenshiau org> National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan. http://www.nchc.org.tw Public Key Server PGP Key ID: 1024D/9762755A Fingerprint: A2A1 08B7 C22C 3D06 34DB F4BC 08B3 E3D7 9762 755A ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. Go to: http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get _______________________________________________ Clonezilla-live mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clonezilla-live
