I have a dual boot system on a test laptop ( not production ).
Partition is GPT
Disk 1 ssd, Disk 2 Hdd.
Windows 10 is installed first. All windows stuff on disk 1 (sdd) with 1 EFI partition, 3 small MS reserved partitions, and 1 system partition (89 GIb).
Opensuse Leap 42.3 installed in second place. The root partition ('/') is on disk 1 (ssd) other linux partition for different softwares are on disk 2 (Hdd) and the second EFI partition is installed by linux installer is on disk 2 ( opensuse recommendation ).
There is a total of 9 partitions on disk 1 (sda)
There is a total of 16 partitions on disk 2 (sdb)
I have made a full backup (partitions to image).
As far I have understood, when you boot, the grub menu show first the Linux boot options then at least the windows option.
I need to restore temporary the laptop as it was windows only.
I first I made a backup ( partitions to image ) with the partition 1,2,4,5 of disk 1 ( efi + 3 reserved partition ) and with the partition 1 of disk 2 ( 2nd efi partition ).
Then I delete completely partition 1 of disk 2.
As expected, the laptop boot to windows.
I then restore partition 1 of disk 2.
But the system continue to boot to windows directly not to the linux loader.
Question 1
When restoring one or many partitions does Clonezilla rewrites physically the partition tables ( gpt or mbr ) This include the flag restoration status ( esp, boot, msftres, .... ) in case a modification has been made ?
Question 2
When trying to restore initial condition, I tried to restore the five partitions of the second backup ( partition 1,2,4,5 of disk 1 and partition 1 of disk 2 ). I got an error because it is forbidden to restore 2 disks from a single image file.
So how to do that ?
Any help is welcome.
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"When restoring one or many partitions does Clonezilla rewrites physically the partition tables ( gpt or mbr ) This include the flag restoration status ( esp, boot, msftres, .... ) in case a modification has been made ?" -> When you use restoreparts, by default, no. It won't create the partition table, and no others about boot loader. Only the file system in the partition will be processed.
"When trying to restore initial condition, I tried to restore the five partitions of the second backup ( partition 1,2,4,5 of disk 1 and partition 1 of disk 2 ). I got an error because it is forbidden to restore 2 disks from a single image file.
So how to do that ?" -> Forbidden? No idea. What were the error messages?
Steven
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Hello.
I have a dual boot system on a test laptop ( not production ).
Partition is GPT
Disk 1 ssd, Disk 2 Hdd.
Windows 10 is installed first. All windows stuff on disk 1 (sdd) with 1 EFI partition, 3 small MS reserved partitions, and 1 system partition (89 GIb).
Opensuse Leap 42.3 installed in second place. The root partition ('/') is on disk 1 (ssd) other linux partition for different softwares are on disk 2 (Hdd) and the second EFI partition is installed by linux installer is on disk 2 ( opensuse recommendation ).
There is a total of 9 partitions on disk 1 (sda)
There is a total of 16 partitions on disk 2 (sdb)
I have made a full backup (partitions to image).
As far I have understood, when you boot, the grub menu show first the Linux boot options then at least the windows option.
I need to restore temporary the laptop as it was windows only.
I first I made a backup ( partitions to image ) with the partition 1,2,4,5 of disk 1 ( efi + 3 reserved partition ) and with the partition 1 of disk 2 ( 2nd efi partition ).
Then I delete completely partition 1 of disk 2.
As expected, the laptop boot to windows.
I then restore partition 1 of disk 2.
But the system continue to boot to windows directly not to the linux loader.
Question 1
When restoring one or many partitions does Clonezilla rewrites physically the partition tables ( gpt or mbr ) This include the flag restoration status ( esp, boot, msftres, .... ) in case a modification has been made ?
Question 2
When trying to restore initial condition, I tried to restore the five partitions of the second backup ( partition 1,2,4,5 of disk 1 and partition 1 of disk 2 ). I got an error because it is forbidden to restore 2 disks from a single image file.
So how to do that ?
Any help is welcome.
"When restoring one or many partitions does Clonezilla rewrites physically the partition tables ( gpt or mbr ) This include the flag restoration status ( esp, boot, msftres, .... ) in case a modification has been made ?" -> When you use restoreparts, by default, no. It won't create the partition table, and no others about boot loader. Only the file system in the partition will be processed.
"When trying to restore initial condition, I tried to restore the five partitions of the second backup ( partition 1,2,4,5 of disk 1 and partition 1 of disk 2 ). I got an error because it is forbidden to restore 2 disks from a single image file.
So how to do that ?" -> Forbidden? No idea. What were the error messages?
Steven