mindi rescue CD does not boot with standard server kernel

Binary package hint: mindi

I'd like to use Mondo / Mindi for system backups on Ubuntu Server 8.10 Intepid Ibex.

Mindi creates a rescue CD from the current running kernel. However, the generated Live CD does not boot afterwards.

The generated Live CD boots fine initially. However, during the CD boot process, I see several error messages, similar to the following (sorry, it's not possible to copy text from the non-booting system ...):

- cannot resolve symbols from e.g., ata_generic, ata_piix like ata_scsi_ioctl or sata_scr_write. Also some missing symbols related to USB...
- multiple references to "floppy0: no floppy controller" (of course I don't have it, but I guess this refers to the mindi boot floppy images)
and finally it stops, asking me to "go to another PC, mount this CD and copy the data disk images", and I should contiue booting with floppy disks (sic!)
So, the restore medium is useless.

Mindi also offers to use another failsaife kernel for booting, however that doesn't seem to be supported on Ubuntu:
- the mindi asks if I want to use another kernel, however this is always ignored in the script
- if I manually change the script to use the failsafe kernel, it wants linux-image-386. Installing this and creating another boot CD with the 386 kernel fails however in the same way as the default server image.

So, in its current state, mondo / mindi is absolutely useless on Ubuntu.

mindi 2.24-3ubuntu1
linux-image-server 2.6.27.9.13

Attached is the Mindi CD creation log.