To facilitate testing I created a CentOS 5.3 VM, trying to stick to the defaults as closely as possible. The three items I changed during setup were:
(1) I chose to "remove all partitions on the selected drive" during partitioning; (2) I de-selected Gnome from the meta-package list; (3) I set the root password to "zmanda" All other options were left at default values. I rebooted the VM once to ensure that the operating system booted and that everything was working as expected. I turned off SELinux and disabled the firewall during the firstboot setup in case it matters, then gracefully shut it down. I've tarred up this VM for you to test with; I expect it to be available within approximately 1 hour here: ftp://ftp.zmanda.com/outgoing/cz-centos53-test.tar.gz I am aware that clonezilla 1.2.2-31 was released this morning, so I downloaded it. This time, instead of setting up PXE booting, I downloaded and burned the CD ISO image from sourceforge (which I had hoped would be better supported): $ md5sum clonezilla-live-1.2.2-31.iso a1f4cc6669717f96de62fc5ee4396484 clonezilla-live-1.2.2-31.iso I then proceeded in the same manner I described in my original email through the selection boxes and ended up with precisely the same results -- clonezilla hangs without an error message while it is scanning the VGs. On the off chance that something was wrong with the NFS server, network, or other hardware I then consecutively installed and tested backup and recovery for the following operating systems: * Windows XP * Windows Server 2003 R2 Both of the above operating systems were successfully imaged by Clonezilla to the NFS server. After the imaging was complete, I zeroed the first 500MB of the hard disk with 'dd' (using systemrescuecd). I then rebooted into Clonezilla and restored the saved image from NFS. I was subsequently able to reboot each machine into Windows and load google/yahoo in IE. Imaging with LVM present has now failed on three different physical machines (2 laptops and one rack mount server) as well as several VMWare virtual machines. The tested operating systems include several recent versions of Fedora and CentOS. I've attached a screen capture depicting the point at which Clonezilla fails to this email. Please let me know if there is something I can do differently to help resolve this. TIA, Mike On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 09:23 +0800, Steven Shiau wrote: > Hi, > How about share the vmware disk which you have tested with us? > It's easier for us to reproduce that problem. > Thanks. > > Steven. >
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