fedora core 3 and ghost
Carrie Knox
knox at sgi.com
Wed Nov 17 16:26:31 UTC 2004
Hello,
I'm wondering if anyone has been able to successfully create a Symantec
or Norton ghost image of an FC2 or FC3 installed system.
In the past I have been able to create compressed ghost images of
various RedHat 9 and RedHat9/Win2K dualboot systems OK. After
installing Fedora Core 2 (and now Core 3), I am unable to create a
compressed Ghost image. I get this Ghost error "Application error
29004" "Read sector failure, result=1, drive=0, sectors -456237413 to
-456237411". This is not a failed device issue. I've received this
exact same error on several Fedora installed hardware platforms. The
disk type doesn't seem to matter. I am able to obtain a block by block
copy of the disk, but I really need the compressed ghost image that can
be reloaded onto a variety of disk sizes.
I'm using the GRUB bootloader and ext3 filesystems with the bootloader
located in the MBR. I've reverted to LILO as the boot loader with no
success... still get the ghost sector read error.
Initially, I was running Symantec Ghost 8.0, but have updated to
Symantec Ghost 8.2.0.1117 after contacting Symantec for assistance.
I've tried a variety of ghost options (-fni, -ffx,-bfc, -ib, -fdsz
-fdsp, -ffs, -fns, -fnu, -or). Ghost -ia and -id both worked.
Symantec support's final response was... "In regards to your issue with
Ghost 8.2.0.1117 when cloning Fedora EXT3 systems...
One would expect that cloning an EXT3 file system would be just that
simple. However, it appears that there might be something different when
using Fedora, perhaps something to do with the partition structure. We
suggest you continue to try the switches -IA -IB -FRO or -BFC as a
workaround. You can include compression with any of these switches. The
bottom line is that Fedora is currently not supported."
Has anyone had Ghost success with FC3? Any ideas on what might be
causing the "sector read" error during image creation?
Thanks,
Carrie
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