How about give Clonezilla live 1.2.11-11 or 20111025-oneiric a try?
These 2 versions have some improvement that you can just unzip the zip 
file in a GPT or MBR USB flash drive, then boot it on a Mac machine.

Steven.

On 2011/10/17 下午 11:23, Pete Morris wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to use Clonzilla Live 20110922 Natty to image an Xserve 3,1 
> running OS X 10.6.8, however, I am unable to select the CD as a boot device. 
> Intel based iMacs boot fine from the CD, and the Xserve can boot from an 
> Apple OS X install disk. I have also tried creating a bootable USB drive with 
> a GPT partition table.
>
> I saw in the release notes for Clonezilla live 1.2.8-42 that "The grub2 boot 
> loader for EFI was added. This is a testing function for booting a Mac 
> machine from an USB device with GPT partition." I can see the EFI boot files 
> and grub.cfg in the /EFI/boot/ directory of Clonezilla.
>
> I saw elsewhere that "The Xserves have EFI, and have no BIOS compatibility 
> mode. If the Linux distro is expecting BIOS, it will get nowhere. Xserves 
> have no "shim" layer like desktop Macs, so there is no "Boot Camp" type 
> environment. Ensure you have a Linux distro that explicitly supports EFI and 
> you may get somewhere." 
> https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2119758?start=0&tstart=0 . It appears 
> that Ubuntu worked with the previous generation Xserves in 2009: 
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Xserve2-1
>
> Should this version of Clonezilla be able to boot an Xserve? If so, any 
> suggestions on troubleshooting are welcome.
>
> Thanks,
> Pete
>
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