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 at ena.com> wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On > > Behalf Of Juan Pablo Espino > > Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 3:45 PM > > To: centos at centos.org > > Subject: [CentOS] 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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >