Hi!
Thanks for your quick response!
We used GRUB with WhiteBox. Also, White Box used the 2.4 kernel and
CentOS uses the 2.6 kernel... any comments?
Thanks a lot!
Juan P. Espino.
On 4/27/05, Marc Powell <marc@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
> > Behalf Of Juan Pablo Espino
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 3:45 PM
> > To: centos@xxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Does CentOS has problems with Norton Ghost 2003
> images?
> >
> > Hello all
> >
> > We have two very important workstations dedicated to tasks of
> > development and investigation. At the moment we have installed a dual
> > boot platform with CentOS 4.0 and Windows XP Proffessional SP2. In
> > order to do backups of these machines we need to create an image with
> > Norton Ghost 2003.
> >
> > We have worked with Ghost during several years with different
> > platforms (Red Hat, White Box Linux, Windows) without problems but now
> > we are facing problems with our CentOS. When the creation of the image
> > reaches approximately 50% in BOTH machines the Norton Ghost aborts
> > with an error. Using the "force cloning" option of Ghost we managed
> > to complete the creation of the image, nevertheless when recovering it
> > we got this error: GRUB GRUB (the machine never booted)
>
> Chapter E, Boot Configuration section of the Ghost2003 manual at
> ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/products/ghost/manuals/g
> host2003_guide.pdf states --
>
> "Boot configuration
> Norton Ghost uses the file /etc/lilo.conf to determine the boot
> configuration. If this file does not match the boot configuration,
> Norton Ghost may be unable to patch LILO during cloning. The keyword,
> default, is not supported in Lilo.conf, so the first target specified
> should be the default target.
>
> If a different boot loader, such as grub, is used, or the preceding
> conditions are not met, Norton Ghost clones the system but the new disk
> probably will not boot. The system should be started from a floppy disk
> or CD, and the boot loader should be reinstalled by running /sbin/lilo
> or an equivalent."
>
> That last paragraph seems applicable. Did White Box use lilo or grub?
>
> > Then we tried to boot CentOS from a floppy and linux rescue and it
> > didn't work. Two days ago we made and we recovered images to those
> > same discs with White Box and WinXP without problems.
> >
> > Given our experience with Norton Ghost, we considered seriously that
> > the problem is CentOS. We did many tests to have arrived at this
> > consideration. Here are the details:
>
> I believe the opposite is more likely. Ghost needs to support the OS on
> the disk, not the other way around. That's why you can't use Ghost to
> clone HFS or ReiserFS partitions. The table below supports that
> conclusion as well --
>
> http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ghost.nsf/8f7dc138830563c888256c220
> 0662ecd/b343f521f647fd1b88256caf00755887?OpenDocument&prod=Norton%20Ghos
> t&ver=2003%20for%20Windows%202000/NT/Me/98/XP&src=sg&pcode=ghost&svy=&cs
> m=no
>
> My guess is that White Box was identical to or close enough to one of
> the supported versions to work correctly. RHAS4 and therefore CentOS4
> are much newer than Ghost 2003 so it's not too much of a stretch to
> imagine that it's not supported.
>
> --
> Marc
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