We have an interesting issue. I have deploy studio running (once I figured the proxy was causing me grief)
First I found that DS1.0rc19 was creating OSX images that would not restore, however using disk Utility to create and modify the image got around that issue. I can repartition drives, reinstall OSX and have the machine renamed etc etc all 100%. However, we have NOT been able to restore a linux partition (mostly...) Using DS to partition the drive(into 3 partitions) I installed OSX onto the 2nd partition (disk0s2), rebooted and confirmed OSX booted fine (has rEFIt installed for linux booting) Used Disk Utility to make a restore image (People seem to have fewer issues with Linux being on the 1st partition and OSX on the 2nd) Installed Ubuntu 10.04. rEFIt works fine and we can boot into linux with zero problems Used DS to create a master of Linux and of the Swap partition. Restore of the system (same partition scheme) allowed rEFIt to come up, it showed both OSX (which will boot) and Linux (which will NOT boot ie no GRUB) So, assuming that DS was buggering up the linux image I used dd piped into gzip to create the compressed image of Linux/Swap partitions Without repartitioning the drive, I can reinstate OSX/linux/swap and everything works However, if I repartition the drive using the DS task that I created the initial partition map, linux/GRUB will NOT boot when restored, however OSX will as does rEFIt boot menu So, we figured that we would use G4U to clone the entire drive (AFAIK effectively dd -> gzip -> ftp server) via a boot CD and then use G4U to restore the entire disk. Daniel has cloned PCs running linux a number of times using G4U with total success. However this was an epic fail, OSX boots fine, Linux will not boot (well at this stage I will say GRUB fails to boot, we get no GRUB menu just a flashing underscore cursor in the top LH side of the screen). We CAN however use dd to clone the entire drive to another machine using dd bs=1M if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb (linux versions of disk1 and disk2) and both osx and linux work fine. I can even use OSX to dd the drives and end up with a working system. (Both drives are OK so we do not need sync,noerr flags) The 2 hard drives in the machine are same make/model using a smaller block size (using the default 512) makes no difference So any ideas why a compressed dd image fails ?, or why DS is failing to make a bootable linux ? or for that mater why G4U is failing. We are about to try using an uncompressed dd image using DS, it just that this will be big (120G) and G4L This is all fairly new to me, so any help will be appreciated Cheers Keith ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ g4u-help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
