Well, believe it or not this means Norton Ghost is screwed up. Why? Cause a simple cat /dev/hda | cdrecord dev=/dev/dvd ... works fine as a backup (once everything is mounted read-only and synced) for me. Regardless this can't be a CentOS problem. This might have to do with Norton trying to parse the filesystem - which now includes selinux labels... Parsing the file system is not something it should be doing. It should be doing a bit by bit copy - possibly with compression. Cheers, MaZe. On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Juan Pablo Espino wrote: > 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) > > 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: > > Two exactly equal machines (the same hardware and resources), except > by the hard disk > > 1. PC DELL > Hard disk: Maxtor 20GB > RAM: 512 MB > Processor: Pentium 3, 866 MHz > > 2. PC DELL > Hard disk: Seagate 20GB > RAM: 512 MB > Processor: Pentium 3, 866 MHz > > The disk partitions are: > > /hda1 windows xp 10 GB > /hda2 /boot 100 MB > /hda3 / 8900 MB > /hda4 swap 1 GB > > We would like to know if someone has had the same problem (making an > image with Norton Ghost 2003 to a dual boot system using Windows and > CentOS.) Any suggestions are VERY important for us. Thanks in > advance. Regards, > > > Juan P. Espino > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >