Re: [Clonezilla-live] clonezilla and grub2

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

Could you please share the partition table of your fedora 38?
BTW, is this a legacy BIOS or uEFI boot machine?

Steven

On 2023/10/8 05:42, Bob Bobsled wrote:
> Clonezilla was working fine to make a bootable usb backup of fedora 37 
> but stopped working when I upgraded to fedora 38.  Perhaps has to do 
> do with Grub2?
>
> I have a single 500 gb LVM2 partition with /root, /swap, /opt, & /home 
> blocks.  I don't really understand Grub2 but apparently the /boot 
> files are a subdirectory of Grub and not part of the partition?
>
> These are the config, initramfs, System.map, and vmlinuz files needed 
> for booting.
>
> I've tried cloning the drive 3 times using the latest Clonezilla live, 
> using disk to disk to try to make a backup on an external usb drive.
>
> The clone is successful, but none of the boot files ever get cloned, 
> and thus the usb is not bootable nor mountable because it doesn't have 
> a  file system without the boot files.  Therefore in the event of of 
> main disk corruption, crash, etc. and the need to restore from the 
> USB, it wouldn't work because there are no boot files cloned to the usb.
>
> So how would I go about making a useable backup disk with Clonezilla 
> given the grub2 problems I've encountered?
>
> Thank you,
> Bob
>
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