Hi Steven,
first of all thanks for your fast answer! My machine's bios only allows uefi )only) OR legacy (only), no mixed mode. And I'm using uefi (only) "normal" mode, not secure boot. Your recommendation for just one partition sound comprehensible, bot not suitable for my requirements: I'm currently affected by a bug, not sure if Linux in general or OpenSuse specific, which leads to kernel crashes when accessing USB devices, up to now unknown why and when. But unfortunately very often when accessing my usb hdd used for backups. This disk was an ntfs formatted drive until today, and every kernel crash leads always (100%) to a corrupted ntfs volume, only fixable by mswin based "chkdsk". And my only access to mswin and "chkdsk" is an old XP box with only USB 2.0 - takes hours every time.... Yesterday I've shrinked the mentioned ntfs backup drive to be able to add a second partition, 250 mb FAT16 formatted, for Clonezilla. You've said ONE (ntfs) partition would be enough, but I didn't know this before. All docs I've found at first are saying uefi is able to handle FAT only, and even the Clonezilla Live pages are only talking about FAT. But I've just checked with an usb stick, freshly formatted with ntfs and Clonezilla Live on it - works fine on my machine. AND good news: My initial Clonezilla problem is *** SOLVED *** Because I've again had a kernel crash during a "Back in Time" (online ) backup, and again a corrupted NTFS drive, I recovered it for a last time, copied everything on another drive, and dropped all partitions on the backup drive. After that, I've created a FIRST partition, 250 mb FAT16 formatted, with Clonezilla Live on it (my originally downloaded clonezilla-live-2.4.6-25-amd64.zip, Debian based). Plus another SECOND partition, ext4 file system on it, for all future Clonezille backups. Never had problems to recover EXT4 after a crash..... And with this, Clonezilla on the FIRST partition of the usb hdd, NOT on the SECOND partition as before, Clonezilla is booting correctly and everything works fine now!!!! Btw bloody cool software, Clonezilla! I love the straightforward mixture of menus and command line, looking forward for my first test of a restore (will keep a "dd" live copy until this test succeeds ;-)) Again: Thank you very much, Michael Am 19.06.2016 um 12:46 schrieb Steven Shiau: > The following is for booting USB flash drive on uEFI machine. First make > sure you only alow uEFI booting in your BIOS settings, not allowing > legacy BIOS to boot. This would make thing easier. > Second, if you enable secure boot in your BIOS settings, please use > Ubuntu-based Clonezilla live, like 20160529-xenal amd64 version: > http://clonezilla.org/downloads.php > It's recommended to use only one partition in your USB flash drive, > format it with FAT32 or NTFS partition, then just unzip the > clonezilla-live-20160529-xenial-amd64.zip on your USB flash drive. > That's all. > The doc on Clonezilla website is for booting USB flash drive both on > legacy BIOS and uEFI. If you just want to boot your USB flash on uEFI > machine, it's as easy as the above. > > Steven > > On 2016年06月19日 08:20, Michael_OF wrote: >> 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 >>> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic >> patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are >> consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, >> J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity >> planning >> reports. http://sdm.link/zohomanageengine >> _______________________________________________ >> Clonezilla-live mailing list >> Clonezilla-live@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clonezilla-live >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? 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