i get the grub menu and after choosing, no matter what option, i get this error:
error:invalidmagicnumber.unalignedpointer0x1a
i tried with different usb sticks, i tried with unetbootin, i tried with etcher, i tried with my ventoy stick, i tried with command line dd, i tried all this options with different images, everytime i get this error. it happened "over night" 2 weeks before i was last time using clonezilla. no problems at all.
please help!! i really don't sleep well without the option to clone my system and restore in case of an heavy error.
and of course i was looking everywhere to find some clonezilla specific hint what this error could cause. no luck ... :(
"error: invalid magic number." -> I encountered this issue, and the solution is to change a USB flash drive. It seems to be a hardware issue. Or you have to make sure the downloaded iso/zip file is not broken. You can try to use checksum (b2sum, for example) to verify that.
Steven
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I had the same problem, and finally I found that the problem comes from the "alignment" of the partition that has been created on the USB stick.
My solution: Use "minitool partition wizard" (v10.1, which is free) to delete the partitions on the USB stick and create a new one. While creating a new (FAT32) partition, for "Partition Align to", choose "Cylinder" (instead of the default "MB" option). Then I simply unzipped "clonezilla-live-3.1.0-22-amd64.zip" into my new partition, and it was able to boot the computer.
Using Windows "Disk management" for creating the partition did not solve the problem for me (maybe because it aligns to "MB", or does not care the alignment).
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i get the grub menu and after choosing, no matter what option, i get this error:
i tried with different usb sticks, i tried with unetbootin, i tried with etcher, i tried with my ventoy stick, i tried with command line dd, i tried all this options with different images, everytime i get this error. it happened "over night" 2 weeks before i was last time using clonezilla. no problems at all.
please help!! i really don't sleep well without the option to clone my system and restore in case of an heavy error.
and of course i was looking everywhere to find some clonezilla specific hint what this error could cause. no luck ... :(
thanks
Last edit: iii6iii 2021-09-25
"error: invalid magic number." -> I encountered this issue, and the solution is to change a USB flash drive. It seems to be a hardware issue. Or you have to make sure the downloaded iso/zip file is not broken. You can try to use checksum (b2sum, for example) to verify that.
Steven
thanks for the answer. but right now i found the solution.
https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Clonezilla_live/thread/fb77f6ae6e/?limit=25#0774
this post is it. now it works. i removed all
from
and now it works.
sorry for bothering everybody, i simply overseen this solution when i first investigate.
This solution worked for me.
Thank you for sharing!
Last edit: Nivedita Magadum 2025-02-06
I had the same problem, and finally I found that the problem comes from the "alignment" of the partition that has been created on the USB stick.
My solution: Use "minitool partition wizard" (v10.1, which is free) to delete the partitions on the USB stick and create a new one. While creating a new (FAT32) partition, for "Partition Align to", choose "Cylinder" (instead of the default "MB" option). Then I simply unzipped "clonezilla-live-3.1.0-22-amd64.zip" into my new partition, and it was able to boot the computer.
Using Windows "Disk management" for creating the partition did not solve the problem for me (maybe because it aligns to "MB", or does not care the alignment).
Cool! Thanks for sharing that.
Steven