bootability of cloned drives
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The key problem with Clonezilla is that clones of bootable drives are not
themselves bootable. If this can be fixed, Clonezilla would be an
outstanding tool.
Thanks for your feedback.
"clones of bootable drives are not themselves bootable" -> What did you mean by this? Could you please share more? Like what's the OS you are cloning? What's the error message when you boot the restore OS?
Thanks.
What he is trying to ask (same thing for me) is how can you take an existing running os (in my case linux) and sort of remaster it into a bootable live ISO distro, thereby converting an installed system into a live ISO that can be installed on another target machine with all the apps, programs already installed on the old machine intact and working on the target machine. This creates: a squashfs-based live ISO that boots widely and can include an installer (uses Debian/Ubuntu terminology; adjust for other distros).
Comparing to you know, the same or similar way that linux distro developers make their iso's live, bootable, and with an installer. I have tried Cubic and the others with no luck. Most of those remastering tools are no longer developed anyway.
It's not a good way to remaster an existing GNU/Linux to a live system. That makes things more complicated.
I suggest this:
https://clonezilla.org//fine-print-live-doc.php?path=clonezilla-live/doc/04_Create_Recovery_Clonezilla
With this, you can restore to the destination machine and boot it. Most of the time it's easier.