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mauromol
2020-03-27
2020-04-15
  • mauromol

    mauromol - 2020-03-27


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    Hello,

    I'm trying to write Clonezilla Live on a SD card but was not
    successful so far.


    The tuxboot tool and other USB image writers (like mintstick or
    Unetbootin) do not recognize the SD card as a valid target to
    write the ISO to.


    I tried to follow the "manual method" described at
    https://clonezilla.org/liveusb.php#linux-method-b, but the
    makeboot.sh script refuses to proceed:



    • sudo bash makeboot.sh /dev/mmcblk0p1 returns "/dev/mmcblk0p1"
      is NOT a valid partition name!

    • sudo bash makeboot.sh -U <UUID> just prints the script
      usage information

    • sudo bash makeboot.sh -L <LABEL> just prints the script
      usage information


    Searched the Internet for alternative ways to write an ISO to a
    SD card. All the suggestions I found are about dd. I then tried:


    sudo dd bs=4M if=~/Download/clonezilla-live-2.6.5-21-amd64.iso
    of=/dev/mmcblk0


    but the result is a SD card containing an apparently valid
    partition table with a (hidden?) NTFS partition that fails to
    mount, either in Linux or in Windows.


    Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.


    Mauro



     
  • Steven Shiau

    Steven Shiau - 2020-04-15

    Thanks. The testing Clonezilla live now, i.e., 2.6.6-11 or 20200414-* has fixed the issue:
    sudo bash makeboot.sh /dev/mmcblk0p1 returns "/dev/mmcblk0p1" is NOT a valid partition name!
    https://clonezilla.org/downloads.php
    Please give it a try and let us know the results. Thanks.

    Steven

     

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