Hi Steve, OK, your case is actually ESXi, I did not notice that it's different from ESX. Looks like ESXi has its own boot loader, not grub. I have no idea about the boot loader of ESXi. Do you have any idea about that?
Steven. On 2010年07月31日 08:05, Steve Poe wrote: > Steven, > > The boot process appeared to have worked, but after login on the console, > nothing from the backup of the VMFS partition is recognized by ESXi server > after the restore. I tried to run grub against the restore disk (sdb), but I > could not figure out what command I needed. > > If I mounted the VMFS partition with Clonezilla, it appeared to be the data > was there, but I am not sure. > > I'd really like to figure this out (I am on the hunt), but there's something > amiss in the restore process possibly, unless there is some validation of the > original VMFS files that causes the problem. > > Steve > > -----Original Message----- > From: Steven Shiau [mailto:ste...@nchc.org.tw] > Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 12:55 AM > To: Steve Poe > Cc: clonezilla-live@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Clonezilla-live] Clonezilla 1.2.5-35 and VMFS > > Hi Steve, > > On 2010/7/30 下午 02:53, Steve Poe wrote: > >> Hi Steven, >> >> I wasn't sure I needed to do that on an ESXi/VMware system. At least in my >> first attempt of the VMFS backup, I did not have to make any changes. Any >> possibility of having an option to capture errors on grub? >> > I haev a ESX system here, and it's using grub 1 as the boot loader. Not > sure if yours is different. > To capture that, you have to start screen and run clonezilla manually to > log that. Maybe in the future, we can have such a way to log most of the > process. > > Steven. > >> Thanks. >> >> Steve >> >> On Jul 29, 2010, at 10:01 PM, Steven Shiau wrote: >> >> Hi Steve, >> >> On 2010年07月30日 12:57, Steve Poe wrote: >> Steven, >> >> I don't recall seeing error messages, but then I usually only look at the >> screen before me. Where should I look for error log file? >> >> There is no log file for grub-install. You have to press shirt-pageup to >> scroll-back the screen to see that. >> BTW, are you able to rerun grub-install manually? Any problem? >> >> Steven. >> As I was leaving work, I was loading the disk 750GB disk image onto the 1TB >> drive. >> >> Steve >> >> On Jul 29, 2010, at 9:03 PM, Steven Shiau wrote: >> >> So the failing to boot issue still exists? >> Did you see any error messages when grub-install was run during cloning? >> >> Steven. >> >> On 2010年07月30日 06:52, Steve Poe wrote: >> Sorry, sda1 is an extended partition. >> >> Steve Poe<steve....@demandtec.com<mailto:steve....@demandtec.com>> wrote: >> >> >> After creating a disk-to-image of my test ESXi server, I noticed the folder, >> I see partitions sda2-sda8 but it has skipped sda1. >> >> Steve >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Steven Shiau [mailto:ste...@nchc.org.tw] >> Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 1:27 AM >> To: Steve Poe >> Cc: >> clonezilla-live@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:clonezilla-live@lists.sourceforge.net> >> Subject: Re: [Clonezilla-live] Clonezilla 1.2.5-35 and VMFS >> >> Hi Steve, >> >> On 2010/7/29 下午 03:02, Steve Poe wrote: >> >> I will give it a try. Any thought to adding VMFS tools to mount or check the >> source/target partition? >> >> What did you mean? If you mean to include vmfs tools in Clonezilla live, >> yes, actually it has been included. You can find >> vmfs-tools version 0.2.1-1 in Clonezilla live 1.2.5-38. >> >> Steven. >> >> Steve >> On Jul 28, 2010, at 11:02 PM, Steven Shiau wrote: >> >> >> Hi Steve, >> Thanks for this bug report. >> We have fixed this issue and release another testing Clonezilla live >> 1.2.5-38 in the testing branch. >> Could you please give it a try and tell us the results? >> Thanks. >> >> Steven. >> >> On 2010/7/28 上午 05:52, Steve Poe wrote: >> >> VMFS partition is recognized as VMFS when creating a disk-to-image file. >> The VMFS partition is recognized as raw when creating a disk-to-disk clone. >> In my test, I was cloning a 750GB and attempting to restore on a 1TB >> disk but without changing >> the partition layout. >> Steve >> ****************************************************************** >> DemandTec Email Notice >> This email and any attachments may contain confidential and/or proprietary >> information and is intended solely for the use of the addressee. 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