Cloned a Drive, won't boot, but have done it twice before and it has worked
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Hi, hope you're doing well!
I believe the title may be a bit confusing but I will explain it perfectly here.
First of all I'd like to thank @steven_shiau for maintaining this Discussion Forum with a high level of expertise, investing his own personal time.
Everybody please thank him.
The topic I'm discussing today goes like this. I've cloned a Hackintosh drive with clover bootloader before, (160gb - 500gb) and the new cloned one booted perfectly fine, bootloader and all. Old one was dying and no need for it any longer.
Later I made a new installation on another drive. When this one began dying, I again cloned onto another drive, (160gb - 160gb) and it worked perfectly fine. Booted, via EFI or legacy, and we're good to go. Again no need for the old one.
Thsi time however, I bought a much larger one and I cloned from the 160gb to a 3tb. It simply will not boot. It redirects to my next boot option which is Windows. I'm assuming the MBR didn't copy over? But I am just so baffled as to WHY this didn't work. I've tried -k and -k2, in other words, using the source partition table, and creating the partition table proportionally. Neither would boot. Really what's raging now is my curiosity. I have a workaround I'm using but I want to know why this didn't work. Would copying the MBR do the trick? Why would it be needed now but it wasn't before. In fact I have copied only a partition in the past and it has booted, so why is this entire drive clone not working?
Many thanks for any insight!
Have a great day!
swordsx48 AKA Trip
Hi @steven_shiau could I get some help with this one please
"I've tried -k and -k2" -> I believe you meant "I've tried -k1 and -k2".
Please run the following commands in Clonezilla live command line:
1. sudo -i
2. parted -s /dev/sda print
(Replace /dev/sda with your disk)
3. blkid
4. cat /proc/partitions
Please show the results of 2-4. Thanks.
Steven
The most efficient way I could think of was to take pictures 😅
I had to use the |more command and an option for a log file came up but this was just a tad more user friendly
the target partition is the Mac Drive, /dev/sdc2
I can also do the same for the source drive if you'd like!
Last edit: Trip P 2020-05-06
The disk is in GPT format, so when Clonezilla clones the disks, it won't copy MBR. If you really need that, you have to manually do that.
Steven
My first thought exactly! However, it worked before with two GPT drives that were ~160gb. Could it have something to do with the fact that this is 3TB?
Maybe it's related since the MBR format can only deal with the largest disk is about 2.2 TB.
Steven