How to boot from an EUFI original or clone Linux partition

[Brian K]

Is it the same in both computers?

[Brian K]

https://www.terabyteunlimited.com/kb/article.php?id=617

Is this relevant?

[brucebne]

Brian K wrote:
> Is it the same in both computers?

LOL....yeah I thought about that. but was getting antsy by that time. and just reformatted the usb...

I did run IFL a few years ago, and it wasn't that different.
It would be good to have it available within Mint, and I might still try that after dinner and a wine or 2. need it after that.....

at least I had genuine euphoria when I woke up to what you were talking about, using IFL to 'copy'.
I swear I've been blind to that option in IFD .

I don't think it used to be in IFD 10+ years ago, and it was always more visual to copy in work with partitions (partition work) so I have been doing that for at least 15 years.

It's great that Terabyte (Paul? Steven?) put those extra options in to change fstab and grub.cfg and change the uuid.

I feel like it is getting back to the easiness of cloning and multibooting windows xp.
I could throw OS partitions around anywhere and between hdd's, after doing a clear sig.

I am seeing a big move of many end consumers away from Windows and towards Linux.....MS's poor ethics in pushing updates is annoying a lot of businesses.
I've heard many stories now about updates rebooting or making windows unavailable in the middle of PPT presentations and critical work.
Very poor form on MS's behalf.

So Linux will have massive growth in the coming years I think.
Mint is in the best position to satisfy windows refugees.

[brucebne]

Brian K wrote:
> https://www.terabyteunlimited.com/kb/article.php?id=617
>
> Is this relevant?


BUGGER!!!

I gotta say you really know your way around the support section!!!

And my Latitude model is specifically mentioned!

SO yes, that's no doubt the issue.

Anyway, 1-2 wines and home cooked Asian....and back into it in 2 hours!
Thanks again for your help.

I kind of think if this ever growing thread resulted in BIU version 1.06, then our time has not been wasted.

[brucebne]

YAY!

Got the usb stick working.

The instructions to rectify are not persistent.

To make them so, boot into Linux OS,
mount usb stick as root
navigate to
/usb stick /boot/grub/grub.cfg
and open for edit
scan down the lines, and FOR ALL THE LINES that begin with "linux"
after the last entry on that line, add one space AND
acpi=off
then SAVE

these changes to grub.cfg will ensure the usb stick boots in future

OK...that's goal 1 achieved.

Goal 2 is to get IFL working from within Mint.

[Brian K]

brucebne wrote:

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> Goal 2 is to get IFL working from within Mint.


If IFL or partwork can't see your disks/partitions...

sudo adduser "username" disk

(and ? restart)

[brucebne]

Brian K wrote:
> brucebne wrote:
>
> >
> > Goal 2 is to get IFL working from within Mint.
>
>
> If IFL or partwork can't see your disks/partitions...
>
> sudo adduser "username" disk
>
> (and ? restart)

Thanks for that....gave up last night after getting it installed, creating a launcher, only to find IFL couldn't find drives.

So how I have it working, making images.....BUT the images are not listed in nemo .... but they are in the folder when I navigate within IFL.
I note they are created with a lower case font *.tbi as opposed to upper case when IFL is run externally
And I have view hidden files on.

[Brian K]

brucebne wrote:

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>, creating a launcher,

Can you tell me how you did that?


>
> So how I have it working, making images.....BUT the images are not listed in nemo

I just made an image and can see it in nemo. Lower case font *.tbi
In nemo I can see my *.TBI images made earlier in Windows.

What does ifl.log say? Errors?

[brucebne]

Brian K wrote:
> I just made an image and can see it in nemo. Lower case font *.tbi
> In nemo I can see my *.TBI images made earlier in Windows.
>
> What does ifl.log say? Errors?

[02/10/2019 06:53:36 AM] Image for Linux (GUI) 3.26
[02/10/2019 06:53:36 AM] Starting ...
imagel --b --d:l0@0x5 --f:l0@0x4:"/MINT5B"
[02/10/2019 06:53:36 AM] Backup: Drive 0 Mint5 Partition (05) 25000 MiB Ext 2/3/4
[02/10/2019 06:53:36 AM] To: l0@0x4:/MINT5B.tbi
[02/10/2019 06:53:55 AM] INFO: Total Sectors:51200000 Total Allocated:20352744
[02/10/2019 06:53:55 AM] INFO: 20352744 Sector(s) backed up
[02/10/2019 06:53:55 AM] Time Elapsed: 0:00:00:19
[02/10/2019 06:53:55 AM] Operation Completed with Error Code 0
[02/10/2019 06:53:58 AM] Stop

[Brian K]

Are you imaging the Mint 19.1 partition? You can't do that in Linux. It's not like IFW with PHYLock.

I just tried a Mint 19.1 image in Mint 19.1. I can't see the image in nemo. But I can after a restart.