I've created a mondo-archive CD-ROM (using mondo-archive v. 1.65 on Gentoo 1.4) and it boots quite nicely. :) However, when I attempt to restore my files - in 'nuke' mode or 'interactive' mode - mondo reduces all of the HDD's partitions to almost nothing! Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. `mondoarchive -Oc 8 -k /boot/bzImage` to create archive disk. 2. boot 3. enter 'nuke' or 'interactive' mode. 4. blah, blah, blah 5. mondo croaks and complains that there wasn't enough room. Actual Results: Mondo resizes all partitions to 0.1% of the size that they *shoud* be. (i.e., My 20GB drive is recalculated to 21MB!) In 'interactive' mode, while editing the mounlist, Mondo reports that the HDD is only ~21MB. Editing the mountlist only causes mondo to complain that /dev/hdc is 'over-allocated'. `fdisk /dev/hdc` works properly [when used separately from Mondo]. Expected Results: Mondo should... a. partition the entire drive, or b. restore to the settings chosen in the mounlist editor ...and format the drive accordingly. These results are only a duplicate system. i.e., There are NO hardware incompatabilities between the two systems. mondo-archive.log is available from http://www.pretorious.net/~eric/mondo-archive.log
What I've found necessary with version 1.65 is to use the Gentoo install disk to do my partitioning and file system creation. I then reboot with disk1 of my Mondo Rescue images. I do the ineractive restore and do NOTHING to modify my partions. It has never failed to install my images. I do, however, upon booting the recovered system, do need to delete a .devfs (or something like that) from the /dev directory. I reboot and I'm good to go. There are some other problems that I think will be resolved with the latest version but I can't seem to get a developer to emerge the latest Mondo Rescue! I have submitted a bug report, but it's being ignored.
Can you try this versus mondo-rescue-2.03? Thanks, Jay
please re-open if mondo-rescue-2.03 doesnt work
