P.S.: I'm one step ahead. When selecting the second of the "HDD manufacturer 
Name" GRUB2 boot options I'm getting a
"GRUB shell". No idea how to proceed or why this boot sequence differs from USB 
flash disk sequence.

Regards,
Michael

Am 18.06.2016 um 09:11 schrieb Michael_OF:
> Hi all!
> 
> 
> I'm trying Clonezilla for the first time after reading a lot about it.
> Downloaded the clonezilla-live-2.4.6-25-amd64.zip Live ZIP file.
> My system is set to UEFI boot, OS is OpenSuse Leap 42.1.
> 
> Installed first on an usb stick (flash drive).
> --> WORKS FINE <--
> When system initially start to boot, "F8" leads to a boot menu, where the 
> Clonezilla Live usb stick is shown as an UEFI
> boot option with the name of the usb stick's manufacturer. Selecting it, 
> boots Clonezilla Live.
> 
> 
> 
> Tried the same to install on a partition on the designated backup usb hdd, 
> following the doc on
> http://clonezilla.org/liveusb.php, "GNU/Linux Method B: Manual".
> --> DOES NOT BOOT <--
> When system initially start to boot, "F8" leads to a boot menu.
> Doing this the with the USB disk plugged in for the FIRST TIME, my system 
> detects 2 additional (new) UEFI boot options,
> both with the name of the disk manufacturer (HGST).  When selecting one of 
> these uefi boot options, screen goes black
> for a short moment, and then the uefi based grub2 menu of my system's ssd 
> starts, with the OpenSuse system.
> This happens ONLY ONCE, when rebooting (even after a power off), DOES NOT 
> show again the two usb hdd uefi boot options
> anymore.
> 
> Any ideas why my usb hdd does not boot the Clonezilla live system?
> 
> Clonezilla's doc says: "Ensure that the partition starts on a cylinder 
> boundary" - how do I check this??
> 
> FYI: Output of  "sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb"
> 
> Festplatte /dev/sdb: 3,7 TiB, 4000786149376 Bytes, 976754431 Sektoren
> Einheiten: Sektoren von 1 * 4096 = 4096 Bytes
> Sektorgröße (logisch/physikalisch): 4096 Bytes / 4096 Bytes
> E/A-Größe (minimal/optimal): 4096 Bytes / 4096 Bytes
> Festplattenbezeichnungstyp: dos
> Festplattenbezeichner: 0xf5c3715a
> 
> Device     Boot     Start       End   Sectors  Size Id Type
> /dev/sdb1              63 976575347 976575285  3,7T  7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
> /dev/sdb2  *    976575488 976754430    178943  699M ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)
> 
> 
> FYI also: The 699M EFI partition was created after the NTFS partition 
> (/dev/sdb1) was shrinked from "whole disk" to the
> current size. Both the NTFS and the EFI FAT32 partition, or exactly their 
> file systems, have been checked with MS WIN
> "CHKDSK /F", no errors found for both.
> 
> 
> Any hints would be great !!!
> 
> Regards,
> Michael
> 

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