"Error! no exisiting partitions or no unmounted partitions"

[Neil Dilly]

Hi, I am having a major problem with my clonezilla. First to give some background, my company uses Lenovo T470s, and I have been a master image that i apply to the new t470s as they come in. Usually i take secure boot off, and the boot option is set to legacy first. After i boot off my clonezilla usb stick i go through my normal operation, for some reason this morning right when the process was about to begin i get the error message "check if the partition really exists, otherwise maybe the kernel is too old".

What is driving me crazy is, nothing in my process changed. I literally did an image restore yesterday to a t470. I pop two more out the box and had the same issue. I was thinking maybe lenovo changed something.

At this point when i start clone zilla all i get is "Error! no exisiting partitions or no unmounted partitions"

Please let me know if any can help. Really need this back running.

[Arthur Tromp]

It might just be a BIOS setting that has changed, maybe because the new models you received have a newer BIOS version installed. So I would compare the BIOS settings of a working system with the BIOS settings of one that isn't working. Especially look at the SATA Operations settings:

https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Clonezilla_live/thread/bd8c7fbb/

If you can't find different settings, you might want to try a BIOS reset to factory defaults, just to see if that helps.

I hope you get it sorted.