It is not because I know that I have uncovered a bug in ddrescue that I send this e-mail, but because it is the only way I know how to communicate with people who know ddrescue well.
I want to be able to make image files of my bootable partitions as back-up files. But for that to make any sense I have to know that I am able to boot them after using the image file again to restore the partition. I have made a test. I use a computer with two harddisks. sda with Windows and sdb with Mageia Linux. I "ddrescue" the Windows partition to sdb3, primary partition, and use fdisk to set the boot flag for sdb3. I have installed grub2 on both sda and sdb. grub2 probing finds both Windows partitions which now has the same UUID, but different PARTUUIDs. Both grub2s, trying to boot sdb3 just gives a blinking cursor in the upper left corner of the screen, and I have to shut down with the power button. Reinstalling Windows bootloader to sdb and booting with it changes the result to "Bad IPL Any key to reboot", but I still have to use the power button the shut down. 1. Is the cause of the problem with ddrescue? 2. What is going on? I would very much appreciate your ideas. -- Sincerely, Ole Reier Ulland Sverre Stordahls vei 3 3613 KONGSBERG Norway (m) +47 40285050 ole.reier.ull...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Bug-ddrescue mailing list Bug-ddrescue@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue