[K12OSN] mondoarchive in K12LTSP 4.4.1

[Eric Harrison]

Tim Born wrote:
> K12LTSP 4.4.1
> A new installation, w/ 'yum update' to collect all the recent updates.
> 
> I don't know who to thank, but I'm really, really pleased to see Mondo
> available and installed on K12LTSP.
> This has been one of my favorite backup tools for several years.
> 
> We are running mondo-2.10-1.k12ltsp.0.4.1.
> I've tried four times to make a backup set, and each time it fails when
> I boot off the first CD to verify (compare).
> I get complaints scrolling by that it can't find various commands (grep:
> not found, portmap: not found, loadkeys: not found, mount: not found, etc.)
> It leaves me in single user with a BusyBox prompt.
> I've used CDs and CD-RWs.  I've tried different combination of answers
> on the gui screens (yes/no my CD uses burn-proof, yes/no my kernel is sane
> - I would sure hope FC4 would have a sane kernel, but I even tried
> lying).  I tried it from the command line as well.   No joy in Mudville.
> 
> Has anyone gotten Mondo to work on K12LTSP 4.4.1?
> 
> When running from the command line I saw an interesting message go by.
> Something to the effect that "Linux says 2.6 has a broken ide-scsi
> module.  Proceed at your own risk ..."
> 
> Basically the CDs are getting written, but when I boot to verify they
> bomb out.
> 
> thanks,
> -tim

This may be the same issue that can cause install disk verifies to fail
(falsely).

Try appending "ide=nodma" to the boot options when booting the restore cd.

-Eric