Re: CentOS 7.4 : boot fails after restore

Bruno Cornec <[email protected]> Thu, 28 Mar 2019 16:42:29 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.mondo.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello Michel,

caerdid said on Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 03:26:54PM +0100:
>Using mondo/mindi-3.3.0-0.20170606202108.s3665M.centos7 on our Centos 7.2
>workstations works great, we can backup and restore.

Reading that, I realize that it's more than time to publish a stable one :-(

>The system doesn't boot, grub complains : error filesystem unknown., with
>the grub rescue prompt.
>

I have seen that as well with 3.3 :-( and that was what prevented me from delivering, due to that regression (whereas other stuff are improved !)

>After searching the mailing list and tracs, I found issue #833 with the
>same symptoms, no boot, both xfs partitions marked bootable...but on RHEL7

So huge difference with CentOS 7 here.

>The issue mention workaround #836, workaround released thru changeset 3701.
>
>How can i obtain the latest 3.3 test release for Centos 7, assuming it
>includes changeset 3701 ? (ftp tests directories RHEL7 or CentOS7 are
>empty...)

Made for you to test with tag 20190328163641.s3712M at ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org/test/centos/7/x86_64
Please give feedback

Bruno.
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