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Greetings! I've had great success doing a fair number of backups and restores thus far - completely incident free! Great product! But then...

Booting to a known good/working IFL USB drive fails to complete the boot on a Dell Optiplex 5040 with 8G mem.
The failure is a 'segment fault' - and the verbiage is as follows:

rc.sysinit(99): seg fault at 0 ip (null) sp bff253d0 error 14 in bash [8048000+ 7c000]

It occurs right after:
Switched to clocksource tsc
Floppy 0: no floppy controllers found
Freeing unused kernel memory: 432k (c16d0000-c173c000)

The error is exactly the same each time - except the stack pointer address (sp, listed above)

I've tried:
- Several boot options in BIOS (different UEFI settings, disabling UEFI)
- Different graphics modes at start
- Different makedisk-created USB and CD (registered to me) media as well.
- Created a brand-new CD using makedisk on the 'problem' PC itself

All these things, to no avail. My version is whatever was current in early-mid 5/2015.

I get no 'hits' on syntax search combinations of the above errors.

I have several different PC's - all different Dell models - and this is the only one that fails to boot IFL.
Any assistance in ferreting out the issue would be appreciated! Thanks!

BPope wrote:
> Greetings! I've had great success doing a fair number of backups and
> restores thus far - completely incident free! Great product! But then...
>
> Booting to a known good/working IFL USB drive fails to complete the boot on
> a Dell Optiplex 5040 with 8G mem.
> The failure is a 'segment fault' - and the verbiage is as follows:
>
> rc.sysinit(99): seg fault at 0 ip (null) sp bff253d0 error 14 in bash
> [8048000+ 7c000]
>
> It occurs right after:
> Switched to clocksource tsc
> Floppy 0: no floppy controllers found
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 432k (c16d0000-c173c000)
>
> The error is exactly the same each time - except the stack pointer address
> (sp, listed above)
>
> I've tried:
> - Several boot options in BIOS (different UEFI settings, disabling UEFI)
> - Different graphics modes at start
> - Different makedisk-created USB and CD (registered to me) media as well.
> - Created a brand-new CD using makedisk on the 'problem' PC itself
>
> All these things, to no avail. My version is whatever was current in
> early-mid 5/2015.
>
> I get no 'hits' on syntax search combinations of the above errors.
>
> I have several different PC's - all different Dell models - and this is the
> only one that fails to boot IFL.
> Any assistance in ferreting out the issue would be appreciated! Thanks!

To start with, I would suggest trying the latest version of IFL (currently 2.98) to see if that shows the same issue. Since you're using the GUI version, if the latest GUI version also shows the problem, try the CUI version (non-graphical) to see if it happens with that.

Registered users can upgrade to the latest version at no cost at the Product Download page here:
https://www.terabyteunlimited.com/product-download.php

Thanks, Tom -

Downloading and installing IFL x64 GUI 2.98 did the trick. Booting IFL on USB to the GUI and starting a backup was a non-event.
I downloaded (and will test) the x86 and non-GUI versions as well, to make sure all bases are covered, going forward.

I presume the 2.98 version(s) are backward compatible to the 2.95 backups?

Thanks for the assist!

BPope wrote:
> Thanks, Tom -
>
> Downloading and installing IFL x64 GUI 2.98 did the trick. Booting IFL on
> USB to the GUI and starting a backup was a non-event.
> I downloaded (and will test) the x86 and non-GUI versions as well, to make
> sure all bases are covered, going forward.
>
> I presume the 2.98 version(s) are backward compatible to the 2.95 backups?
>
> Thanks for the assist!

OK, that's good to hear. And yes, version 2.98 can restore images created with IFL 2.95.