For the record : the problem was that the default disk emulation of vmware (at least Fusion, mac) is SCSI, while the originating machine was an IDE one. Looks like centos wasn't equipped with the necessary drivers to handle the SCSI interface.
Solution 1 : change the interface type to IDE and restore again Solution 2 : add the drivers needed (not tried) Thanks for the help Steven ! Matthieu Début du message réexpédié : De : Steven Shiau <[1][email protected]> Date : 1 juillet 2009 10:01:12 GMT+02:00 À : Matthieu Gaillet <[2][email protected]> Objet : Rép : [Clonezilla-live] Restoring a CentOS disk to VmWare : help needed Yes, vmlinuz will be loaded, then when initrd.img is loaded, and when it tries to find the root partition, it can not find, since SCSI driver is not found in initrd.img, so it won't be able to mount the root partition on SCSI disk. Therefore it shows you kernel panic. Steven. Matthieu Gaillet wrote: Would it boot anyway until the Kernel panic ? Even without those drivers ? I'll try to check if they are presents and to install them if needed. Le 01-juil.-09 à 08:46, Steven Shiau a écrit : Hi Matthieu, Matthieu Gaillet wrote: Nope, the contrary : * disk image taken on Physical IDE --> restored on vmware SCSI emulation (default setting) =>* doesn't work (panic)* * disk image taken on Physical IDE --> restored on vmware IDE emulation --> *works !* That makes sense... Since maybe your initrd of OS taken from IDE disk does not include the driver for SCSI device. Steven. Matthieu Le 01-juil.-09 à 04:39, Steven Shiau a écrit : Hi Matthieu, Did you mean you installed CentOS on your IDE in the VMware machine, and it works ? But if CentOS is installed on SCSI disk, Clonezilla failed to restore ? Steven. Matthieu Gaillet wrote: Steven, I tried using an IDE drive emulation on the VMware machine : IT WORKS ! Any idea ? Should it work ? How could I make it work in SCSI anyway ? Thanks Matthieu Début du message réexpédié : *De : *Matthieu Gaillet <[email protected] <[3]mailto:[email protected]>> *Date : *30 juin 2009 09:22:46 GMT+02:00 *À : *Steven Shiau <[email protected] <[4]mailto:[email protected]>> *Objet : **Rép : [Clonezilla-live] Restoring a CentOS disk to VmWare : help needed* Hi Steven, Thanks for your answer. I didn't saw any other error messages, but it is possible that I missed one of them... Is there a log of the activities written somewhere on the ramdisk ? Regarding the image dir : it is stored on an external hardrive that I access through Samba at restore time. Here is the result of the find command : Thanks Maybe a lead : the original physical machine is equipped with IDE / ATA drives. Vmware presents a SCSI interface... Could it be the origin of the problem ? Matthieu Le 29-juin-09 à 17:03, Steven Shiau a écrit : Matthieu, Matthieu Gaillet wrote: Hi, I'm trying to restore a physical installation of Centos to a VMWare virtual machine. I received the dreaded "Running: grub-install-no-floppy-root-directory=/tmp/hd_img.QiFQFv /dev/sda grub-probe: error: Cannot open '/boot/grub/devise_map' /usr/sbin/grub-install: line 374: [: =: unary operator expected" error message. This is a harmless error. Check this: [5]http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=513216 BTW, when you saved or restored the image, did you see any error messages other than the above one ? How about the image dir ? Could you please run: find /home/partimag/$YOUR_IMAGE -print (Replace $YOUR_IMAGE with your image name) then post the results ? Steven. Anyhow, when I try to boot the machine, I received a Kernel Panic : References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. mailto:[email protected] 3. mailto:[email protected] 4. mailto:[email protected] 5. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=513216
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