Hi Michael, OK, cool. It's nice to know now Clonezilla works for you. I have updated the website, not only FAT, but also NTFS will work for the live USB with syslinux. Actually ext2/3/4, or btrfs is also working, but FAT and NTFS works for both GNU/Linux and MS Windows, so I just list these two file systems.
Steven On 06/20/2016 07:48 AM, Michael_OF wrote: > 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. 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