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iii6iii
2021-09-25
2025-02-06
  • iii6iii

    iii6iii - 2021-09-25

    i get the grub menu and after choosing, no matter what option, i get this error:

    error: invalid magic number.
    unaligned pointer 0x1a
    

    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
  • Steven Shiau

    Steven Shiau - 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

     
  • iii6iii

    iii6iii - 2021-09-25

    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

    search --set -f /live/vmlinuz
    

    from

    /boot/grub/grub.cfg 
    

    and now it works.

    sorry for bothering everybody, i simply overseen this solution when i first investigate.

     
    • Nivedita Magadum

      This solution worked for me.
      Thank you for sharing!

       
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      Last edit: Nivedita Magadum 2025-02-06
  • Massoud Babaie-Zadeh

    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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  • Steven Shiau

    Steven Shiau - 2023-07-07

    Cool! Thanks for sharing that.

    Steven

     

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