Ghost Solution Suite

Using GSS2, restoring a Fedora 3 image results in booting to a basic grub screen. There's probably a grub command I can type to find the boot files, but unfortunately, I don't have a pony tail. Has anyone else run into this, and know a fix?

are you using LVM? ghost doesn't support restore LVM to empty disk. It only supports if there is LVM already in the disk.

If you are not using LVM, you can try following steps.
1. Get a copy of system rescue CD. I believe 1st disk of fedora3 should be ok.
2. boot using the cd and go into recovery mode
3. mount the old root file system. (hda number might be different for your machine)
$mkdir /mnt/temporary
$mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/temporary
4. you have to give permission to this directory
$ chroot /mnt/temporary /bin/bash
5. now fix the grub by running grub program
$ /sbin/grub-install /dev/hda
6. you can modify the grub menu if necessary.
$grub
grub> root (hd0,0)
grub> setup (hd0)
grub> reboot
$exit
$reboot

*note that disk number might be different but most cases it is hd0,0

Hope this will give you some guide line.

Thanks, Ethan. Turns out Fedora 3 created LVM volumes by default. So I installed using Disc Druid and created a boot partition of 150 MB, a swap of 1024 MB, and filled the rest of the hard drive with /.

Now, client booting off of pxe (like normal), I create a gather image task in Console. It hooks up and uploads 20-25% of its image, then spontaneously reboots.

I tried all three compression settings, no go.

Any ideas?

hey Ron,
were there any error file?
I guess you have enough space on console to store image. right?
still spontaneous reboot sounds strange.
Frankly I haven't seen spontaneous reboots before.

Message Edited by rmatze on 04-25-200701:38 PM