I'm using the most recent stable release of Clonezilla LiveCD on an IBM Thinkpad T60 with an 80gb sata drive. The image creation both using either entire disk or just partition copy up to my nfs server just fine without any errors. When I try to bring the image down everything appears to work without issue as well. However, once the image has come down successfully, the laptop will not boot. When I boot using the system rescue cd and run gparted I can see the partition and it is flagged as bootable, I'm not sure what's going. I tried to different images. The first was an ntfs partition with windows on it which also had a diagnostic partition which was fat32, I also tried with just an ntfs partition. I've tried many different option combos within clonezilla as well. I'm sure I have given some bit of needed information so feel free to ask me anything.
-Tom
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I used the -j0 option and it really had no effect. However I did find a workaround which seems to work just fine. I have a feeling that IBM has custom written an MBR specific to these machines. The second partition is FAT32 and it holds not only diagnostic software but it also used to restore the machine to factory defaults, in essence, they've created a removable media less recovery CD. I used a LiveCD called Trinity Resource and ran it's mbr repair tool with a command of ms-sys -m --mbr /dev/sda and once the command is successful and I reboot the machine boots as normal. As far as an error message, I don't get any, the machine just skips the HDD in the boot order and once it can't boot a status screen shows up and displays OS information for each boot device, at which point the HDD shows as having an invalid operating system. In any case, it's working for me now and I'll begin experimenting with other machine types to see if I get the same types of issues, I'm guessing not. What are your thoughts on why I might need this extra step??
-Tom
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I did use clonezilla to save IBM T41/T43/X40, with the diagnostic partition exists, it works here. Maybe T60 is different.
However, actually I do not have too many experience about M$ windows in IBM T/X laptop. Every time I got the machine, we repartition the disk to install GNU/Linux only so the M$ windows and the recovery partition are gone.
I think we need you to do more tests and tell us the results if you can find that.
Thanks in advance.
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All,
I'm using the most recent stable release of Clonezilla LiveCD on an IBM Thinkpad T60 with an 80gb sata drive. The image creation both using either entire disk or just partition copy up to my nfs server just fine without any errors. When I try to bring the image down everything appears to work without issue as well. However, once the image has come down successfully, the laptop will not boot. When I boot using the system rescue cd and run gparted I can see the partition and it is flagged as bootable, I'm not sure what's going. I tried to different images. The first was an ntfs partition with windows on it which also had a diagnostic partition which was fat32, I also tried with just an ntfs partition. I've tried many different option combos within clonezilla as well. I'm sure I have given some bit of needed information so feel free to ask me anything.
-Tom
What's the error message when you said "the laptio will not boot" ?
BTW, did you check this:
http://drbl.sourceforge.net/faq/index.php#path=./2_System&entry=23_Missing_OS.faq
Steven,
http://drbl.sourceforge.net/faq/index.php#path=./2_System&entry=23_Missing_OS.faq
I used the -j0 option and it really had no effect. However I did find a workaround which seems to work just fine. I have a feeling that IBM has custom written an MBR specific to these machines. The second partition is FAT32 and it holds not only diagnostic software but it also used to restore the machine to factory defaults, in essence, they've created a removable media less recovery CD. I used a LiveCD called Trinity Resource and ran it's mbr repair tool with a command of ms-sys -m --mbr /dev/sda and once the command is successful and I reboot the machine boots as normal. As far as an error message, I don't get any, the machine just skips the HDD in the boot order and once it can't boot a status screen shows up and displays OS information for each boot device, at which point the HDD shows as having an invalid operating system. In any case, it's working for me now and I'll begin experimenting with other machine types to see if I get the same types of issues, I'm guessing not. What are your thoughts on why I might need this extra step??
-Tom
I did use clonezilla to save IBM T41/T43/X40, with the diagnostic partition exists, it works here. Maybe T60 is different.
However, actually I do not have too many experience about M$ windows in IBM T/X laptop. Every time I got the machine, we repartition the disk to install GNU/Linux only so the M$ windows and the recovery partition are gone.
I think we need you to do more tests and tell us the results if you can find that.
Thanks in advance.