Clonezilla restore; can I avoid the problem where ubuntu drops into initramfs with the warning ubuntu-vg-root doesn't exist

ohnoplus

1/8/24, 8:59 PM

I cloned a fresh install of ubuntu 18.04 with an encrypted LUKS partition to an .iso file using clonezilla. I then tried to restore from that same ISO file. The restore seemed to work, but now when ubuntu starts it drops me into an intramfs shell and if I exit from that it tells me that ubuntu-vg-root-doesnt-exist.

I understand that there are a bunch of steps that I could take to try to restore the system, as outlined here Gave up waiting for root device, ubuntu--vg-root doesnt exist I haven't quite gotten any of them to work, but I could keep at it for a while longer.

I'm wondering if there is any way to run my clone backup and restore to avoid this problem in the first place.

In my initial clone and restore, I followed default options, allowing it to unencrypt the partition when making the backup.

Happy to provide any additional information.

Additional information: I used restore disk, instead of restore partition when restoring. I used the partition table from the image. I did not check the image before restoring but I'm trying that now.

Some warning messages during the restore: "No root partition is mounted! You'd better make sur eth erunning kernel does support the file system of root partition!

And the second time I did this I'm in. Not sure what I did, except for maybe checking the file before restoring (but it didn't find any issues when it did the check).

0 + 0

boot

clonezilla

Elon Musk

I sit in a Tesla and translated this thread with Ai:

EN: Clonezilla restore; can I avoid the problem where ubuntu drops into initramfs with the warning ubuntu-vg-root doesn't exist

Post an answer

Most people don’t grasp that asking a lot of questions unlocks learning and improves interpersonal bonding. In Alison’s studies, for example, though people could accurately recall how many questions had been asked in their conversations, they didn’t intuit the link between questions and liking. Across four studies, in which participants were engaged in conversations themselves or read transcripts of others’ conversations, people tended not to realize that question asking would influence—or had influenced—the level of amity between the conversationalists.