Santiago Bruno wrote: > On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 4:47 AM, Steven Shiau <ste...@nchc.org.tw> wrote: > >> Hi, >> Thanks for the bug reports. I reply your question sin the following. >> >> Santiago Bruno wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm trying to use Clonezilla live in a machine that will boot using >>> PXE through its interface eth1. This machine can redirect the console >>> using Serial over Lan with its own hardware and is configured to do >>> so. >>> >>> I added live-getty and console=ttyS0,115200n8 to the kernel command >>> line but I'm having a strange problem. >>> >>> When I'm looking at the serial console, after booting clonezilla, >>> there is output at the console as expected, but some output also goes >>> to the VGA. And it's not the same output. Is like there are two >>> different clonezilla instances in tty1 and ttyS0. They even start >>> cloning the same partitions at diferent times messing all up. At the >>> end one can go to the command line on both consoles and evidently they >>> are two different processes. >>> >> How did you configure your clonezilla live ? Please show us the config >> files, e.g. syslinux.cfg... So it's easier for me to reproduce the problem >> then we can fix this problem. >> > > Well, I'm using some custom scripts, but now I reduced the > configuration to try to use a script that does not exists to see if > the problem still happened so it could be easier to reproduce. > > The pxe file for the machine would be like this: > > default Clonezilla > label Clonezilla > kernel /clonezilla/vmlinuz > append initrd=/clonezilla/initrd.img boot=live live-getty > console=ttyS0,115200n8 union=aufs noswap noprompt nosplash > live-netdev="eth1" > fetch=tftp://<SERVER_IP>/clonezilla/filesystem.squashfs > ocs_live_keymap="NONE" ocs_live_batch="yes" ocs_lang="en_US.UTF-8" > ocs_live_run="/blablablabla" > "console=ttyS0,115200n8" -> Is it a typo or? The one I tried before is with extra "1" in the end:
console=ttyS0,115200n81 Steven. > and what happens when booting is the following. > > VGA starts displaying the pxe boot, "Decompressing Linux..." > decompressing the initrd, and the last lines are > "Ready > Probing EDD (...) ok" > > It stops there, and then, text starts coming out through ttyS0 > instead. squashfs is decompressed, init starts, I can see that it > tries to set up eth0 through dhcp because I see some "DHCPDISCOVER..." > lines until it times out. > Then I think it sets up eth1 very fast and then the problem starts. > I think it is when the ocs scripts begin executing. > The VGA changes from the typical console text to another font, > probably a framebuffer, and some scripts begin executing both in tty1 > and ttyS0 > obviously they fail inmediately because there is no blablablabla > script, but I get the prompt to select what to do next in both > terminals and they are different processes. > If I type "tty" one gives /dev/tty1 and the other /dev/ttyS0. > I would expect that everything happens in ttyS0 if I specified > console=ttyS0 on the command line, or to have an option to do that. Is > it possible? I would expect in that case to keep tty1 blocked or in a > login prompt. > > > >>> I hope I had explained the problem clearly. Is there a way to avoid >>> this? To make clonezilla run just in one console? >>> >>> May be this is caused because of the uncommon scenario in which I'm >>> running clonezilla, because I couldn't find much information about >>> this problem on the net. >>> >>> I used clonezilla-live-1.2.2-31 for this test. >>> >>> So I tried with clonezilla-live-1.2.3-15 and the ubuntu based, but >>> there I had another problem. The live-netdev="eth1" is apparently >>> ignored. While running the initrd the ipconfig command tries to >>> configure eth0 using dhcp and does never time out. >>> >> The live-netdev bug has been fixed in Clonezilla live 1.2.3-18. Please give >> it a try. >> > > It is working fine now. Thanks a lot! > > Santiago. > -- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Clonezilla-live mailing list Clonezilla-live@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clonezilla-live
