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Had to use Boot-Repair after Clonezilla, why wouldn't my computer boot after cloning?

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Gabe
2015-04-15
2015-04-23
  • Gabe

    Gabe - 2015-04-15

    Hello, I backed up the mbr & partition table:

    dd if="/dev/sda" of="backup-sda.mbr" bs=512 count=1
    sfdisk -d "/dev/sda" > "backup-sda.sfdisk"
    ocs-sr -q2 --batch -j2 -z1p -i 2000 -sc -p true saveparts IMAGE1 sda1 sda2

    I moved onto two other exact same model computers, restored mbr & partition table and then ran:

    dd if=backup-sda.mbr of="/dev/sda"
    sfdisk "/dev/sda" < backup-sda.sfdisk
    ocs-sr -e1 auto -e2 -c -t -r -j2 -k -p true restoreparts IMAGE1 sda1 sda2

    On one of the computers the cloning went flawlessly, but on the other all I could see was a blinking cursor after BIOS.

    I could only get past this blinking cursor after running boot-repair from an Ubuntu Live CD.

    Here is a copy of the Boot Info Summary:

    http://paste.ubuntu.com/10830303/

    I'm stumped as to why the script is not working on this computer.

     
  • Steven Shiau

    Steven Shiau - 2015-04-23

    It's better to re-run grub-install if your OS is GNu/Linux. Therefore in your ocs-sr command, you'd better to add "-g auto", i.e.
    ocs-sr -g auto -e1 auto -e2 -c -t -r -j2 -k -p true restoreparts IMAGE1 sda1 sda2

    Steven.

     

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