Hi Robert, Thank you for reporting this bug.
On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 18:02 -0700, Robert Jeffrey Miesen wrote: > Package: mondo > Version: 2.08-2-3 > Severity: critical > Justification: breaks the whole system I am afraid that this is not a critical bug. Rather it is an important bug as it makes mondo completely unusable for some people, i.e. you in this case, but it certainly doesn't effect your _running_ system at all. (I have just completed a full archive and restore run using a PATA-only setup with no problem to confirm that their is no general problem.) > Upon booting from a DVD image of my entire system, mondo/mindi detects > my SATA (Serial ATA) hard disk as an IDE drive. (I do not currently have a SATA disk unfortunately, so I can't try this myself at the moment.) Am I getting this right that you are saying that your SATA disk which is sda in your system appears as hda when restoring to that very same system? Could you describe how you perform the restore? This would include any changes that you make to the hardware like replacing or turning-off disks and such. Also, could you take a photo of the monitor to illustrate the problem. Further to that, could you boot into expert mode by entering 'expert' at the rescue media boot prompt and hitting enter. Once the system has booted could you do: fdisk -l /dev/hda and fdisk -l /dev/sda and send post the output. Could you do the same in your normal system? If you have sda as your disk, then hda would quite likely be your optical drive (maybe in your case your DVD writer). Maybe what really happens is that the SATA disk is not recognised at all and hda is the optical drive. Again, it would be helpful to understand better how you are restoring. As an example you wouldn't just overwrite your SATA disk I presume. So, do you change disks or do you turn them off? (It's that sort of things that I really need to understand better.) Could you also send me the output of lsmod when in your normal system and when booted into the restore system in expert mode as described above. > This makes my backup virtually worthless in the event of a > catastrophic failure of my system (whether from me messing it up or my > hard disk failing). That is why I called this bug a critical bug, > because it does break the whole system when you can't restore your > system. Please see the top of my response. I can understand that you consider this serious and for you it likely is. For Debian as a whole, however, it is not. Note that this does not influence my commitment to fixing the problem - I do definitely find this important. If there is anything else that you can think of that could be related, please mention it! The more information we have the more likely we can fix this. Best regards, Andree -- Andree Leidenfrost @ Debian Developer Sydney - Australia
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