Can't boot Clonezilla on MacBook
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I have the latest stable Clonezilla on USB stick and CD. Neither of these are recognized by MacBook7 as bootable media in the Boot Menu accessed by holding down option key when powering on. Both of these boot fine on another computer. The MacBook does recognize my LinuxMint USB stick as a bootable media and I had no problem using it to load LinuxMint into the MacBook. I have seen suggestions that not all USB sticks are created equally so have tried three different sticks one of which was exactly the same model as my LinxuMint USB stick. This made no difference. All of the USB sticks and Cd were created using LinuxMint to write the ISO files to media. Any idea how to fix this?
Did you try this method?
https://clonezilla.org/liveusb.php#macos-setup
Or maybe you can try to format the USB stick as vFAT file system, and unzip the Clonezilla live amd64 zip file on it?
Steven
Thanks. I will try that once I have access to a machine running MacOS
OK I created a bootable USB stick using balena-etcher on another Mac still running Apple software. My Mac does not see it as a bootable device although it will boot on other computers.
Looking at USB sticks (some of which will boot on the Mac) with the LinuxMint 'Disks' program I can see a difference between them. I don't know if it is significant. The sticks which will boot have a partition type of 0x00 (Bootable). The Clonezilla stick has a partition type of Hidden HPFS/NTFS (Bootable).
Or maybe you can give different type/model of USB stick a try. Sometimes the hardware compatibility will cause this kind of issue.
Steven
As stated in original post I tried three different USB sticks by two different manufacturers. Two of the sticks are identical to sticks that will boot, One has LinuxMint 22 on it and one has SystemRescue. The only difference I have been able to see is that the Clonezilla stick has a different partiton type as previously stated.
One correction. I tried again with various CDs and there is a delay but it will recognize and boot from the Clonezilla CD.