Re: [Clonezilla-live] UEFI/GPT systems?

[Ersek, L. <la...@ca...>]

Hi Steven,

On Tue, 23 Jul 2013, Steven Shiau wrote:

> Hi Laszlo,
> On 06/16/2013 08:35 PM, Ersek, Laszlo wrote:
>> On Sun, 16 Jun 2013, Steven Shiau wrote:
>>
>>> On 06/16/2013 08:15 PM, Ersek, Laszlo wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The disk contents was probably restored just fine, but, in order to
>>>> automatically boot from fixed (ie. non-removable) media, you must add a
>>>> Boot#### non-volatile UEFI variable (= a boot option) and reference it
>>>> in the BootOrder variable. See "3.1.1 Boot Manager Programming" in the
>>>> UEFI 2.3.1+errC specification.
>>>>
>>>> These variables are stored in system flash, and all UEFI OS installers
>>>> (eg. Anaconda for RHEL, Fedora, CentOS) must set them. I assume
>>>> clonezilla doesn't save them in the backup image.
>>
>>> Thanks. Yes, you are right, we have to add this.
>>> Could you please provide more info about how UEFI OS installers does
>>> this? Such as the tools to set that...
>>
>> On a lower level, you would call the SetVariable() UEFI runtime service.
>>
>> For the command line, I think efibootmgr / rEFIt / rEFInd are the
>> usual choices.
>>
>> http://freecode.com/projects/efibootmgr
>> http://freecode.com/projects/refit
>> http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/
>>
>> Laszlo
> Thanks for providing this info.
> We have implemented a mechanism to address this issue. You can find that
> in clonezilla-live-2.1.2-24-amd64 and
> clonezilla-live-20130723-raring-amd64. By default Clonezilla will update
> the boot entries in EFI NVRAM, and if you want to skip this action, you
> can enter expert mode, and choose "-iefi" option.
> Please test it and let us know the results.
> Thanks.

I'm very sorry -- although I had asked some questions about clonezilla on 
the list, I never ended up using it, and it's unlikely I could test this 
for you.

I kept my list subscription because the list is low traffic and sometimes 
interesting even for a non-user. Since part of my day job is related to 
UEFI, this thread has caught my eye; but that's all I could do, 
unfortunately.

Maybe the OP of this thread, Les Mikesell, could help with testing?

Thanks,
Laszlo