Hi all, I've been using Clonezilla for a little while with our Intel Macs and it's worked just fine. This is using the 20110530 build and Mac OS X.4, X.5 and X.6. However, I've just upgraded a Mac to OS X.7 and it no longer recognises our Clonezilla discs.
I've tried the latest CZ build, both the i686 and AMD64 versions, and the Startup Disk section of OS X system preferences refuses to recognise any of them, rendering it impossible to boot into Clonezilla.
Is this a problem anyone else has experienced or recognises, and can anyone suggest or recommend a fix or workaround?
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. :)
Many thanks,
Shaun
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How about give Clonezilla live 1.2.10-2 or 20110727-oneiric a try? They comes with Linux kernel 3.0.0 so maybe your Mac is supported.
Please let us know the results.
Steven.
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It turns out that there is a (probably) easier and better way of using Clonezilla with OS X; rather than selecting CZ in Startup Disk you can simply hold down 'C' when the Mac boots, which forces it to boot from disc. This seems to be working fine so far; I still have to test if I can transfer the image back down successfully but I'm optimistic!
Another advantage of not using Startup Disc to boot CZ is that, after restoring an image, you don't have to hold down Alt during boot to select the boot partition. (The saved image remembers that you told it to boot from a disc that is no longer present.)
I'll download ISOs you suggest and give them a try if this approach fails!
Thanks again, and thanks for all your work on Clonezilla in general - great utility!
Shaun
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A little extra information in case it's useful to anyone:
Although the latest CZ version seemed to be behaving, the image it saved to our server was only about 14mb, which was obviously off!
I reverted to the old version I'd been previously using (20010530) and that worked fine with Lion. I'm about 10 minutes away from restoring an image and confirming it's all okay.
There's a possibility that the latest version of CZ just doesn't like Lion for… some… reason, or there's a possibility that I mistyped something somewhere (although everything *appeared* fine bar the amount of data being saved).
If I find out any more info I'll post it up here in case it's useful.
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For the record we've been using Clonezilla with Mac OS X for a month and a half now and it's going well. When I have more time I plan to roll it out to other Macs (just need a few days to reinstall versions of the OS :)
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I think kenagcaoili photo proves everything dpulver needs to know but in case it helps further: I've not cloned a Mac's recovery partition as we don't use them here, but I have cloned a Mac which had about seven partitions on it, five of them containing different versions of OS X.
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I have been using clonezilla now for several months and it works totally fine when I clone a windows operating system. I am trying now to clone a mac operating system, it has an i-7 processor, with the latest mac os, and when I try to boot from the clonezilla it starts up and then stalls and fails to boot. Can anyone suggest what I am doing wrong that clonezilla fails on me?
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ok I tried burning an iso image both on a mac and a pc, I must be doing something wrong, as it keeps on saying boot faild. This debian live image failed to boot.
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Hi all, I've been using Clonezilla for a little while with our Intel Macs and it's worked just fine. This is using the 20110530 build and Mac OS X.4, X.5 and X.6. However, I've just upgraded a Mac to OS X.7 and it no longer recognises our Clonezilla discs.
I've tried the latest CZ build, both the i686 and AMD64 versions, and the Startup Disk section of OS X system preferences refuses to recognise any of them, rendering it impossible to boot into Clonezilla.
Is this a problem anyone else has experienced or recognises, and can anyone suggest or recommend a fix or workaround?
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. :)
Many thanks,
Shaun
How about give Clonezilla live 1.2.10-2 or 20110727-oneiric a try? They comes with Linux kernel 3.0.0 so maybe your Mac is supported.
Please let us know the results.
Steven.
Hi Steven,
Thanks for the quick response!
It turns out that there is a (probably) easier and better way of using Clonezilla with OS X; rather than selecting CZ in Startup Disk you can simply hold down 'C' when the Mac boots, which forces it to boot from disc. This seems to be working fine so far; I still have to test if I can transfer the image back down successfully but I'm optimistic!
Another advantage of not using Startup Disc to boot CZ is that, after restoring an image, you don't have to hold down Alt during boot to select the boot partition. (The saved image remembers that you told it to boot from a disc that is no longer present.)
I'll download ISOs you suggest and give them a try if this approach fails!
Thanks again, and thanks for all your work on Clonezilla in general - great utility!
Shaun
A little extra information in case it's useful to anyone:
Although the latest CZ version seemed to be behaving, the image it saved to our server was only about 14mb, which was obviously off!
I reverted to the old version I'd been previously using (20010530) and that worked fine with Lion. I'm about 10 minutes away from restoring an image and confirming it's all okay.
There's a possibility that the latest version of CZ just doesn't like Lion for… some… reason, or there's a possibility that I mistyped something somewhere (although everything *appeared* fine bar the amount of data being saved).
If I find out any more info I'll post it up here in case it's useful.
Just used clonezilla-live-20110901-oneiric on OS X Lion successfully. Able to create and re-image.
Cool! Thanks for sharing that.
Steven.
That is definitely good to know, thanks!
For the record we've been using Clonezilla with Mac OS X for a month and a half now and it's going well. When I have more time I plan to roll it out to other Macs (just need a few days to reinstall versions of the OS :)
Does Clonezilla successfully clone the recovery partition included with new Macs?
What did you mean by the "new Macs"?
When was it made?
Steven.
Steven- All thanks belong to you!
dpulver- I don't know much about Macs. I am assisting another school. However, this pic:
https://sites.google.com/a/hsdb.k12.hi.us/technology-access/imac-lion/IMAG0349.jpg?attredirects=0
should verify that Clonezilla successfully cloned the Macintosh HD and Recovery HD. This pic is an OS X Lion Mac that was cloned with Clonezilla.
FYI: I was able to successfully clone a dual boot mac with OSX Lion and Ubuntu 11.04 without any problems.
Kenagcaoili,
Cool! Thanks for sharing that.
Steven.
I think kenagcaoili photo proves everything dpulver needs to know but in case it helps further: I've not cloned a Mac's recovery partition as we don't use them here, but I have cloned a Mac which had about seven partitions on it, five of them containing different versions of OS X.
I have been using clonezilla now for several months and it works totally fine when I clone a windows operating system. I am trying now to clone a mac operating system, it has an i-7 processor, with the latest mac os, and when I try to boot from the clonezilla it starts up and then stalls and fails to boot. Can anyone suggest what I am doing wrong that clonezilla fails on me?
Hi Minya808,
Are you using CZ live or the CZ with DRBL server?
If you are using Live, try downloading the latest testing unstable image.
If you are using the server, try updating, but save your config file first.
Ken
clonezilla-live-20111018-oneiric.iso
works for me.
ah I understand now, I didn't know where the oneiric was, I found it, I will test that out right now. Thank you for your help
ok I tried burning an iso image both on a mac and a pc, I must be doing something wrong, as it keeps on saying boot faild. This debian live image failed to boot.
"boot faild. This debian live image failed to boot." -> Did you do a md5sum check after downloading the Clonezilla iso file?
Steven.