Changeset 2937 in MondoRescue for branches/3.1/mindi/README.pxe

Timestamp:

Jan 28, 2012, 1:51:28 AM (12 years ago)

Author:

Bruno Cornec

Message:

svn merge -r 2849:2935 ../3.0

• Adds 3 binaries called potentially by udev o support USB key mount at restore time (Victor Gattegno)
• mindi only sets the boot flag of a USB device if none is present already (should avoid flip/flop situation)
• Fix a compatibility bug in analyze-my-lvm whete exclude lists with '|' was incorrectly analyzed (' ' still expected)
• Precise that -J is not supported by mondorestore yet.
• Fix a compatibility bug in mindi where exclude lists with '|' was incorrectly analyzed (' ' still expected)
• Install an MBR on USB devices when possible
• Improve error message in case mondorestore isn't found
• Adds support for more virtio devices for KVM restore
• Improve mbr.bin handling
• Fix an issue in test of FindKernel for Xen and non Xen cases
  • Fix #492 by removing an extra useless fi
  • Move fvat nd fat modules to CDROM_MODS in order to have them in the initrd to support saving logs to a USB device e.g.
  • Fix an error when dmidecode reports comments before system name
  • Fix previous broken patch on comment management for bkphw
  • Improve msgs printed during kbd analysis
  • Fix a small remaining pb with new comment support
  • Try to again improve the mount/umount stuff in mondo -Adds mention to OEL, CentOS, ScientifLinux as RHEL clones
• Fix a panadoid_free done on the wrong variable (solve a memory leak)
• Solve #495 by skipping the potential (auto-read-only) when analyzin /proc/mdstat result
• Fix some markup in man pages
• adds the post-nuke script sample for Debian (Guillaume Pernot/Andrée Leidenfrost)
• Avoid a useless umount when changing of afio set, let insist_on_cd check and perform if needed
• Copy everything under .ssh of root account to allow for sshfs mount without passwd at restore time.
• Adds support for bnx2i driver
• Try to fix #496 by supporting the protocol in the output of the mount command (sshfs#...)
• Uses the -d option of the mount command to avoid leaving loop devices in use. Probably provoked by the usage of a more recent busybox, but anyway that option doesn't hurt, and does nothing for non-loop devices. Should fix the problems reported on the ML with NFS and more than 8 ISO images (8 being the default number of loop devices available)
• Attempt to fix #436 by adding some newtDrawForm where appropriate.
• Fix bugs in the kernel detection routine of mindi (some echo were done without capturing their output, confusing the return). This should also help the Xen detection issue
• Change the logging function to be nearer from 2.2.10, and start using some
• Initialize some global fields with an empty string, now that newt Draws more regularly progress forms
• Mindi progression still not good, but showing now 3% when calling mindi. Would need a specific handling for the progress bar to evolve more afterwards
• Add compatibility with the latest SSSTK + PSP content for HP ProLiant + branding homogeneous now. We only take conrep out of the SSSTK pending a package availability. Using hpacuscripting now. Review of parameters called following test made.
• Fix #501 by pushing BOOT_SIZE to 36864 for certain Ubuntu cases
• Fix some remaining inconsistencis in the ProLiant HW backup. ready for usage.
• Fix an issue on udevadm call (needs an intermediate variable)
• Fix a remaining ProLiant tool call
• Remove again some wrong variable initialization for Net in order to not have strange messages now we call Draw more often
• Adds support for hwaddr (MAC addresses) at restore time, and map to the correct NIC if it's found at restore time (based on code from Stefan Heijmans)
• Try to Fix #499 by changing init in order to never exit, and rebooting using sysrq in /proc (not portable). Maybe should move to using a real init, and a separated rcS script.
• Fixes the shell msg error by using setsid as per Busybox FAQ
• Fix #491 by correctly checking Xen kernel used for a dom0 env (apollo13)
• Improves logging in Die()
• Improve again ProLiant HW support, by adding references to the yet to come SSSTK rpm so that conrep is called at its future right place.
• Improve mindi support for kernel 3.x
• Fix #499 for good, by using a real init from busybox and moving our init script to etc/init.d/rcS. We also now call the reboot from busybox to exit, which indeed reset the system correctly (in a VM at least which wasn't the case before). Reauires a new mindi-busybox as well.
• Attempt to solve #503 by handling /lib64 separately for udev and only if not a link (to /lib) for Ubuntu 64
• Improve again previous tests for bug #503
• Improve -d option description for NFS
• Allow http download for ftp content
• New italian mirror
• Fix #505 by documenting environment variables
  • Fix a bug where on OBDR mode compression was turned off to create the OBDR content but not back on (report from the mailing list)
• solve http://trac.mondorescue.org/ticket/520 by Victor Gattegno
• Fix #524 as option -U needs a size also
• Removes useless gendf option
• Fix #511 now stabgrub is called also after conf file modifications
• Adds support for SUID binaries
• remove a useless xenkernelname variable from mindi
• Should fix #512 by clearing old scratchdir before changing to a new
• Simplify the function engaging SCSI for Smart Array controllers, and support as many controller as we have
• Add some binaries used on SLES 10 by udev
• Fix a syntax issue in newt-specific.c
• Fix a memory free bug where a used variable was freed to early
• Fix a memory free bug where a used variable was misused in asprintf/free
• Fix #498 by using an external program (hpsa_obdr_mode) which can set the mode of the tape to CD-ROM or Sequential at will.

That program will have to be downloaded from ​http://cciss.sf.net

• Adds support for the route command in mindi-busybox
• Force block size back to 32768 in OBDR mode after skipping the 2 tape marks, to read the additional rootfs data corerctly - Fix #498 for good it seems
• Adds support for a new pata_atiixp driver
• Fix #525 and improve printing when no /etc/raidtab, but still md devices
• Exclude /run similarly to /sys and /proc
• Fix a bug in mindi when having multiple swap partiions with same starting string (/dev/dm-1 and /dev/dm-16). We now add a space in the grep to avoid mischoice.
• Fix grub installation if we had to go in the hack part which wasn't using the correct variables to make decisions !
• Remove all mention of mondorescue.com from code
• Fix some website typo on the download page and precise that we now develop on Mageia
• Exclude sysfs devpts and tmpfs partitions found in RHEL 6.2 from analyze by mindi (made error messages)
• Force activation of first partition which should not be optional as everything is destroyed before
• Fix a bug in analyze-my-lvm where LVs were created in random order (the one of lvscan) instead of using the dm-xxx order, which creates issues at restore time between the mapping created then and the one we had at backup time which could be inconssistent

-mondoarchive now exists if the mt command is missing when needed

• Proper fix for analyze-my-lvm
• Fix #500 and #473 by adding support of old metadata format for mdadm if using grub < 0.9x or lilo on a md boot device (to be tested)
• Really never inject or eject when the -e option is passed or device is inappropriate (USB, Net, ...)
• Fix #577 by having factor back as a float (not a long ! it's a decimal value) and making the appropriate cast.
• Fix #578 by improving the regexp used for CD/DVD detection with -scanbus option
• Adds more verbosity when LVM creation fails.
• Fix #579 by checking with pipes on both sides of the string
• debugfs should be excluded from the device considered for fstab analysis

File:

• branches/3.1/mindi/README.pxe (modified) (3 diffs)

branches/3.1/mindi/README.pxe

@@ -11 +11 @@
 label mondo
         kernel vmlinuz-mondo
-        append initrd=initrd-mondo load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 ramdisk_size=131072 rw root=/dev/ram iso acpi=off apm=off devfs=nomount exec-shield=0 pxe [proto=nfs|sshfs] [prefix=machine] [ipconf=(ipdev:ipadr:netmask:broadcast:gateway|ipdev:dhcp)] [netfsmount=server:mountpoint] [netfsopt=-o option][netfspath=local_path] [ping=#] ...
+        append initrd=initrd-mondo load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 ramdisk_size=131072 rw root=/dev/ram iso acpi=off apm=off devfs=nomount exec-shield=0 pxe [proto=nfs|sshfs] [prefix=machine] [ipconf=(ipdev:ipadr:netmask:broadcast:gateway|ipdev:dhcp)] [hwaddr=M:A:C:A:D:R] [netfsmount=server:mountpoint] [netfsopt=-o option][netfspath=local_path] [ping=#] ...
 
 ipdev is the device name (e.g. eth2)
@@ -19 +19 @@
 gateway is the default gateway (e.g. 192.168.1.254)
 dhcp is a keyword. Using it will provide all the previous 4 values to activate the LAN interface.
+hwaddr is the MAC address of the device you want to use to restore through
 proto is the protocol to use for mounting the remote share (default is NFS, sshfs is also available)
 server is the ip addr of the Remote Network server
@@ -48 +49 @@
 CAVEAT: the limit to the number of char on the append line is 255. Use symlinks to reduce the size of your path if needed.
 
-Please report any problem around that tool to bruno@mondorescue.org
+Please report any problem around that tool to bruno_at_mondorescue.org
 
+2011-10-09 adds support for hwaddr
 2009-12-05 nfsopt added tp allow for custom options at mount time
 2009-09-09 Changed to netfs for multi protocol support (nfs, sshfs, ...)