Re: Can't restore Red Hat Ent V3 from tape

From: Jean-David Beyer (jdbeyer_at_exit109.com)
Date: 09/10/04

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    Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 13:08:08 -0400

    Dave wrote:
    > Could someone help me, I am having trouble restoring a full system
    > backup tape which contained a good "bru" archive of my full and updated
    > Operating system from / down. I had Red Hat Enterprise V3 installed
    > and about 3 months of updates, which included several updates to the
    > kernel that I had noticed the kupdate program downloading and
    > installing. My latest kernel on the system was vmlinuz-2.4.21-20.EL.
    > My /etc/grub.conf stated the following after the updates.

    It needs a little bit more (see below).
    >
    > kernel = /vmlinuz-2.4.21-20.EL Root=LABEL=/ initrd
    > /inird-2.4.21-20.EL.img
    >
    > kernel = /vmlinuz-2.4.21-15.0.4.EL ro Root=LABEL/ initrd
    > /initrd-2.4.21-15.0.4.EL.img
    >
    > kernel = /mvlinuz-2.4.21-15.EL ro Root=LABEL/ initrd
    > /initrd-2.4.21-15.EL.img
    >
    > After I restore the full system backup tape and reboot, the system just
    > boots to a black screen with the work "GRUB" and a flashing cursor. The
    > system is totally unresponsive to any keyboard keys. I am guessing
    > after restoring the tape backup the GRUB program can't locate the now
    > restored boot image that probably is in a new area on the HD. I have
    > played around with running the command #grubby
    > --update-kernel=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-20-.EL to see if it would update
    > any/or all necessary entries to find the kernel on boot, but again
    > after the fifth time of reloading everything and rebooting the system
    > just comes back to a black screen with the word "GRUB".
    >
    >
    > Any help to this problem would be greatly appreciated.
    >
    > Please feel free to email me at "laporte1@charter.net"
    >
    >
    > Thanks
    >
    > Dave LaPorte.

    Did you actually use CRU? It is supposed to restore absolutely everything,
    partition table, /dev/, and all, by using two floppies and the backup tape.

    Is /boot and /boot/grub correct? Sounds like grup is being called and it
    cannot find the stuff in /boot/grub.

    My /boot/grub looks like this:

    ]$ ls -l /boot/grub
    total 187
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 82 Mar 2 2004 device.map
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7840 Mar 2 2004 e2fs_stage1_5
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7536 Mar 2 2004 fat_stage1_5
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6880 Mar 2 2004 ffs_stage1_5
    -rw------- 1 root root 881 Sep 8 00:42 grub.conf
    -rw------- 1 root root 905 Aug 4 01:22 grub.conf.dist
    -rw------- 1 root root 905 Aug 4 01:12 grub.conf~
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8448 Mar 2 2004 jfs_stage1_5
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Mar 2 2004 menu.lst ->
    ./grub.conf
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7040 Mar 2 2004 minix_stage1_5
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9408 Mar 2 2004 reiserfs_stage1_5
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11182 Sep 11 2003 splash.xpm.gz
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Mar 2 2004 stage1
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 106364 Mar 2 2004 stage2
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6528 Mar 2 2004 vstafs_stage1_5
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9320 Mar 2 2004 xfs_stage1_5

    trillian:root[/boot/grub]# cat grub.conf
    # grub.conf generated by anaconda
    #
    # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
    # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
    # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
    # root (hd0,0)
    # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda3
    # initrd /initrd-version.img
    #boot=/dev/hda
    default=0
    timeout=15
    splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
    title Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (2.4.21-20.ELsmp)
             root (hd0,0)
             kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-20.ELsmp ro root=LABEL=/
             initrd /initrd-2.4.21-20.ELsmp.img
    title Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (2.4.21-20.EL)
             root (hd0,0)
             kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-20.EL ro root=LABEL=/
             initrd /initrd-2.4.21-20.EL.img
    title Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (2.4.21-15.0.4.ELsmp)
             root (hd0,0)
             kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-15.0.4.ELsmp ro root=LABEL=/
             initrd /initrd-2.4.21-15.0.4.ELsmp.img 

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