Marico, No problem. Enjoy the new version. If any problem, please post it again.
Steven. Marcio Teixeira wrote: > Ah, excellent! I am in fact using older versions that we happened to have > lying around our IT room from our former admin. I guess they are a mix of > Clonezilla and Clonezilla+GParted discs, none of them appear to be the 1.2.1 > branch. > > I apologize for not checking to make sure I had the latest version before > posting my question. I'll download the latest version and try it! > > Thank you for making Clonezilla. It has been a wonderful time-saver! > > -- Marcio > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Steven Shiau [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 5:41 AM > To: Marcio Teixeira > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: **SPAM MAIL by NCHC** [Clonezilla-live] Backing up multiple MBR > sectors > > Marcio, > Which version of Clonezilla live are you using ? > Did you try Clonezilla live 1.2.1-39 now in the stable branch ? > It will save the hidden data between MBR and first partition and will > restore it when you do a disk clone. We have tested it on thinkpad X61, > and it works. After the image was saved and restore, it boots > successfully, and the function key F11 (for recovery) still works. > > Steven. > > Marcio Teixeira wrote: > >> >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> I have been using Clonezilla to make disk images of several older >> IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad computers (A22p, T42p and T43p) and I’ve found out >> that these machines need a special MBR which occupies several sectors >> for their Rescue and Recovery functionality. I was wondering if there >> was any way to tell Clonezilla how many sectors of the MBR to save, as >> this would help get a valid, bootable image. >> >> >> >> The following is a discussion of workarounds I found mostly for the >> benefit of other folks who may have ThinkPads and are trying to clone >> it using Clonezilla. >> >> >> >> Initially I found that my cloned T42p and T43p laptops would not boot >> after cloning. The workaround was to boot an XP install disc, run the >> recovery console, and run FIXMBR from there. This would install a >> default XP MBR, and allow XP to boot, but would disable IBM Rescue and >> Recovery functionality. It took me several other days to find a >> solution, at least for the T42p and T43p laptops, involves running the >> IBM provided BMGR32.exe for fixing the MBR. >> >> >> >> The A22p laptops did not have this tool at all, so I ended up having >> to use a tool called MBRWiz to copy the first four sectors of the >> harddisk from a working laptop to a non-working one to restore the >> Rescue and Recovery functionality. >> >> >> >> -- Marcio >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA >> -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise >> -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation >> -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Clonezilla-live mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clonezilla-live >> >> > > > -- Steven Shiau <steven _at_ nchc org tw> <steven _at_ stevenshiau org> National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan. http://www.nchc.org.tw Public Key Server PGP Key ID: 1024D/9762755A Fingerprint: A2A1 08B7 C22C 3D06 34DB F4BC 08B3 E3D7 9762 755A ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Clonezilla-live mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clonezilla-live
