Re: [Clonezilla-live] When does CZ restore bootloader?

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

Hi,

On 2010年09月30日 18:45, Gilles wrote:
> Hello
>
> I'm still not sure how Clonezilla handles the bootloader in the MBR
> when restoring an image into a partition.
>
> Does it _always_ restore the bootloader, so that I don't end up with
> either the Windows bootloader trying to boot Linux, or GRUB trying to
> boot Windows without GRUB's configuration files?
>    
In the beginner mode, "-g auto" is on by default. Therefore basically 
you can say that.
> According to the documentation, through the "-g" option, it appears
> that Clonezilla will restore GRUB in the MBR if any partition is
> Linux and contains GRUB's configuration files.
>
> Also, the "-t" option is set by default, so Clonezilla will restore
> the MBR: Here, does "MBR" mean the whole 512 bytes sector, or just
> the 440-byte bootloader?
>    
Actually if you check "-t", no MBR will be restored.
Here we mean it's 446 bytes (executable code area):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record

This is the default options for beginner mode:
http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/doc/02_Restore_disk_image/advanced/09-advanced-param.php

Steven.
> Thank you.
>
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> web-based forum: Are e-mails sent to the mailing lists copied to the
> forums, or are those two totally separate? If the latter, which is
> more active: The mailing lists or the forums?
>
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