Clonezilla CD does not boot on laptop

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Clonezilla CD does not boot on laptop

Forum: Clonezilla live

Creator: Erich Schulman

Created: 2014-08-03

Updated: 2014-08-17

Erich Schulman - 2014-08-03

I have tried the current stable of the Ubuntu-based Clonezilla, the current stable of the Debian-based Clonezilla, and two past versions of the Debian-based -- in all cases, amd64.

On my desktop, the current stable CD works as expected. The desktop uses a MSI X79A GD45Plus motherboard.

The laptop is a HP Probook 4510s. When I boot the CD, it stays forever on the BIOS screen (HP logo, press ESC for menu). If I eject the CD, booting will resume. I have checked the BIOS, and UEFI is turned off. The laptop runs 64-bit Win7Ult, so amd64 is not the issue.

I went on to try the i686-pae and i486 CDs. Exactly the same problem. To rule out the optical drive, I tried my backup copy of the Win7 DVD. No problem at all.

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Steven Shiau - 2014-08-06

So did you try the testing ones:
http://clonezilla.org/downloads.php
They come with newer Linux kernel so it might help.

Steven.

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Erich Schulman - 2014-08-09

I tried the amd64 Debian-based testing CD. Still the same problem.

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Steven Shiau - 2014-08-17

So do you know any version of GNU/Linux could boot on that machine?
Or did you try USB version of Clonezilla live?
Thanks.

Steven.

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