[svlug] Fedora Core 6 cloned with Ghost can't boot

[Quentin Johnston]

Cloning dual-boot systems can be a real bitch.  We use Optiplex 745's
here too and I've had the most luck with Ghost4Linux
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l> . It allows you to take a raw
bit-by-bit dd image of a system up to an FTP server.  Then you can boot
up the rest of the machines with the G4L CD and pull the image down to
them.  You can also use PXEboot for imaging lots of systems at the same
time. I usually don't get grub errors when I image with G4L, but if I do
I can usually just copy the menu.lst file from the original pc I was
cloning.   I was talking to someone from Ubuntu at Linuxworld and he
suggested using Clonezilla <http://clonezilla.sourceforge.net/> .  It
looks pretty complex, but I haven't experimented with it yet - you might
want to try that one too. 

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From: Johnny Johnny [mailto:hellolinux at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 10:50 AM
To: svlug at lists.svlug.org
Subject: [svlug] Fedora Core 6 cloned with Ghost can't boot

 

I have 20 DELL Optiplex 745 desktop computers,with identical hardware,
that need dual-boot between Windows XP and Fedora Core 6 installed. I
successfully setup a model computer and then use Symantec Ghost to clone
the rest of the computers. However, all the cloned computers display the
following error message when booting up in Fedora Core 6. Windows XP
works fine.

 

How to resolve this problem? Thank you.

 

...

...

Setting up Logical Volume Management: 2 logical volume (s) in volume
group "VolGroup00" now active
            [OK]

Checking filesystems

/boot: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY
   (i.e, without -a or -p options)
            [FAILED]

*** An error occurred during the file system check.
*** Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot
*** when you leave the shell.
Give root password for maintenance
(or type Control-D to continue):


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Here are the outputs of 'sudo fdisk -l'

(Repair filesystem) 1 # sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19452 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks      Id   System
/dev/sda1               1                 8        64228+   de   Dell
Utility
/dev/sda2   *           9         10451    83883397+   7   HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3           10452       10464      104422+   83   Linux
/dev/sda4           10465       19452    72196110    f    W95 Ext'd
(LBA)
/dev/sda5           10465       19452    72196078+  8e  Linux LVM


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Here are the outputs of 'cat /etc/fstab'

(Repair filesystem) 2 # cat /etc/fstab
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00  /           ext3                  defaults  1
1
LABEL=/boot                  /boot        ext3                  defaults
1 2
devpts                            /dev/pts   devpts  gid=5,mode=620   0
0
tmpfs                              /dev/shm  tmpfs
defaults 0 0
proc                                /proc       proc
defaults 0 0
sysfs                               /sys       sysfs
defaults 0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01  swap     swap                defaults 0 0


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Here is the Windows XP boot.ini file:


[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
C:\BOOTLINX.BIN="Linux"

 

 

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