Im trying to clone my boot disc for 3 OS's, and part of it fails. I use the latest stable version of Clonezilla. I have 1 OSx86 Installation there and 2 XP installations. It boots from the last partition (sda4) with OSX chameleon, there I can chose to boot OSX or XP, if I chose XP I can chose between the two XP installations. Partitions look like this:
/dev/sda1 Drive_C NTFS
/dev/sda2 Music NTFS
/dev/sda3 Data NTFS
/dev/sda4 DaMac HFS+ (boot)
Drive_C and Music are the XP partitions that can I can boot (after chosing so from chameleon on sda4).
After cloning this 400Gb Disk to a 1.5Tb disk without errors (using disk-to-disk mode with default options), I can successfully boot into OSX, but both Windows Installations fail, though not at the unfamous blinking cursor or "enter boot disk" message, but I get until the blue Windows screen with the Windows logo, where it seems to loop or something, because I see disk access in regular intervals.
I guess I somehow have to fis those Windows installations, but I'm hesitant in which way to do without destroying the chameleon boot manager...
any ideas?
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When you cloning your hard drive, did you see any error messages ? Which mode did you use ? What's the steps ? Please tell us more so it's easier to see if anything wrong there.
BTW, is it a Intel-based Mac, or an X86 machine ?
Steven.
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I repeated the process to document it, and got different results now. This time I wouldn't even get to the point where I can select the Windows installation. I.e. in chameleon I select "Drive_C" and nothing would happen. I guess this is the same as the infamous blinking cursor.
These are the steps I did:
- boot from clonezilla CD in default graphical mode
- select german keyboard
- select device-device mode
- disk_to_local_disk
- source sda, target sdb (all other disks are disconnected at the moment)
- options default: -g-auto, -e1-auto, -e2, -j2
- partition table from source disk
- clone boot loader: Y
- sdb1/2/3 are cloned with ntfsclone
- sdb4 is cloned with dd (not enough support)
- grub is skipped
- partclone.ntfsreloc is skipped
in the entire process there were no errors.
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ok, I gotta change the question... I realized that when I delete a partition, the chameleon bootloader won't start anymore.
My initial plan was, since resizing the HFS partition isn't easy, and I already had 4 primary partitions, to delete the Windows data partition, relocate that free space to a existing Windows system partition, and then having only three partitions. Then create a HFS partition in the free space because of the bigger disk I cloned to.
It failed at the point where I deleted the Data partition and afterwards the bootloader didn't work anymore.
My new plan is, to freshly have two windows partitions with the 2 Windows installations, and then install OSX86 fresh into the remaining space.
I just have no idea, how to get two bootable partitions, without installing XP twice. I'd rather prefer to use my existing installations.
So how could I just create two partitions that are empty but bootable, so that I could just clone
my two windows installations into them?
any ideas?
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"So how could I just create two partitions that are empty but bootable, so that I could just clone
my two windows installations into them? "
-> If the partition is MBR, not GPT, then you can use any partition editor program to do that, e.g. fdisk, cfdsik, sfdisk. If you prefer GUI program, you can try GParted live (http://gparted.org).
Once the partition table is ready, you can use the partition restore function in Clonezilla live to restore the image.
Steven.
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Hi,
Im trying to clone my boot disc for 3 OS's, and part of it fails. I use the latest stable version of Clonezilla. I have 1 OSx86 Installation there and 2 XP installations. It boots from the last partition (sda4) with OSX chameleon, there I can chose to boot OSX or XP, if I chose XP I can chose between the two XP installations. Partitions look like this:
/dev/sda1 Drive_C NTFS
/dev/sda2 Music NTFS
/dev/sda3 Data NTFS
/dev/sda4 DaMac HFS+ (boot)
Drive_C and Music are the XP partitions that can I can boot (after chosing so from chameleon on sda4).
After cloning this 400Gb Disk to a 1.5Tb disk without errors (using disk-to-disk mode with default options), I can successfully boot into OSX, but both Windows Installations fail, though not at the unfamous blinking cursor or "enter boot disk" message, but I get until the blue Windows screen with the Windows logo, where it seems to loop or something, because I see disk access in regular intervals.
I guess I somehow have to fis those Windows installations, but I'm hesitant in which way to do without destroying the chameleon boot manager...
any ideas?
When you cloning your hard drive, did you see any error messages ? Which mode did you use ? What's the steps ? Please tell us more so it's easier to see if anything wrong there.
BTW, is it a Intel-based Mac, or an X86 machine ?
Steven.
I repeated the process to document it, and got different results now. This time I wouldn't even get to the point where I can select the Windows installation. I.e. in chameleon I select "Drive_C" and nothing would happen. I guess this is the same as the infamous blinking cursor.
These are the steps I did:
- boot from clonezilla CD in default graphical mode
- select german keyboard
- select device-device mode
- disk_to_local_disk
- source sda, target sdb (all other disks are disconnected at the moment)
- options default: -g-auto, -e1-auto, -e2, -j2
- partition table from source disk
- clone boot loader: Y
- sdb1/2/3 are cloned with ntfsclone
- sdb4 is cloned with dd (not enough support)
- grub is skipped
- partclone.ntfsreloc is skipped
in the entire process there were no errors.
There are some improvements in the testing Clonezilla live. Maybe you can give it a try to see if any difference.
Steven.
great, that worked! Now I only have to find a way to extend my HFSplus partition (should have checked before :P)
ok, I gotta change the question... I realized that when I delete a partition, the chameleon bootloader won't start anymore.
My initial plan was, since resizing the HFS partition isn't easy, and I already had 4 primary partitions, to delete the Windows data partition, relocate that free space to a existing Windows system partition, and then having only three partitions. Then create a HFS partition in the free space because of the bigger disk I cloned to.
It failed at the point where I deleted the Data partition and afterwards the bootloader didn't work anymore.
My new plan is, to freshly have two windows partitions with the 2 Windows installations, and then install OSX86 fresh into the remaining space.
I just have no idea, how to get two bootable partitions, without installing XP twice. I'd rather prefer to use my existing installations.
So how could I just create two partitions that are empty but bootable, so that I could just clone
my two windows installations into them?
any ideas?
"So how could I just create two partitions that are empty but bootable, so that I could just clone
my two windows installations into them? "
-> If the partition is MBR, not GPT, then you can use any partition editor program to do that, e.g. fdisk, cfdsik, sfdisk. If you prefer GUI program, you can try GParted live (http://gparted.org).
Once the partition table is ready, you can use the partition restore function in Clonezilla live to restore the image.
Steven.