I am using CloneZilla to image a hard drive. This hard drive is dual-boot for
Fedora 5 and Fedora 11, sharing a boot partition.
The boot partition has the Fedora 5 version of grub.
The partition layout is:
/dev/sda1 /boot
/dev/sda2 / for FC5
/dev/sda3 swap
/dev/sda4 extended
/dev/sda5 / for F11
/dev/sda6 /home
On the system/drive *from* which the image is made, all works as expected. I
can boot into either Fedora 5 or Fedora 11, and either of those OS's can access
the /home partition with no problem.
I then restored the disk image back onto the same system with the same hard
drive. All was OK.
I then restored the disk image back onto the same system with a different hard
drive, but the same model (presumably identical hardware). The problem does
occur.
If I restore on a different system, but to the original hard drive, things work.
After restoring the different harddrive, I boot into Fedora 5 and all is well.
Everything is properly accessible. As expected, I get the following output
from running blkid:
/dev/sda3: TYPE="swap" LABEL="swap" UUID="4167d8f6-e6a6-422f-b7f3-b63402b71b1e"
/dev/sda2: LABEL="/" UUID="ea61bbcb-b692-416f-96fe-3915614a2d4c"
SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda1: LABEL="boot" UUID="8b50e034-d9c0-4295-bade-bde385368c8d"
SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda5: UUID="93759d5a-452d-4fbe-8725-cccb71e2dc24" SEC_TYPE="ext2"
TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda6: UUID="7a78f920-a0ac-4706-9b80-2e3a3b69627e" SEC_TYPE="ext2"
TYPE="ext3" LABEL="home"
Output of ls -ld /dev/sda*:
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 0 Sep 17 09:20 sda
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 1 Sep 17 09:20 sda1
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 2 Sep 17 09:20 sda2
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 3 Sep 17 09:20 sda3
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 4 Sep 17 09:20 sda4
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 5 Sep 17 09:20 sda5
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 6 Sep 17 09:20 sda6
However, when I boot into Fedora 11, the boot fails with the diagnostic:
fsck.ext3: Unable to resolve 'LABEL=boot'
dumping me into the shell, from which I see:
"fdisk -l" output:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 14 2563 20482875 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 2564 3073 4096575 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4 3074 19457 131604480 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 3074 5684 20971520 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 5684 19457 110632927+ 83 Linux
blkid output:
/dev/sda5: UUID="0008f94193759d5a-452d-4fbe-8725-cccb71e2dc24" SEC_TYPE="ext2"
TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda6: LABEL="home" UUID="7a78f920-a0ac-4706-9b80-2e3a3b69627e "
SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
Output of ls -ld /dev/sda*:
brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 0 2009-09-17 09:42 sda
brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 5 2009-09-17 09:42 sda5
brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 6 2009-09-17 09:42 sda6
It's worthy of note that partitions 4, 5, and 6 were created during the
installation of Fedora 11.
I will also note that if I remove the F11 /etc/fstab entry for the boot
partition, that F11 boots OK, but still only recognizes sda5 and
sda6 as partitions.
So, I am puzzled:
1. My configuration works from the system before imaging.
Both Fedora 5 and Fedora 11 recognize all partitions.
2. My configuration works from the system after imaging,
for Fedora 5, but not Fedora 11.
Fedora 11 is recognizing only two of the partitions.
3. My configuration works if I restore the exact same hard drive
(not just the same hard drive model), both both F5 and F11.
Conclusion: ???
This is a hard one, but is the imaging process perhaps not properly
initializing some portion of the destination hard drive (e.g., maybe by zeroing
it) in a way that Fedora 5 does not care about, but Fedora 11 does.
Any help appreciated!
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