I'm using the latest IFL, 2.85 and have encountered a problem imaging and restoring one of my hard drives.
I do a full backup of a Linux / Windows hybrid installation and the backup image maintains the correct partition types. I checked using the command line -L option. The disk is partitioned as follows.
boot 01 type 83 linux
/ 02 type 83 linux
swap 03 type 82 swap
extended 04 type 5 extended
vol 0 05 type 83 linux
Windows 06 type 7 HPFS/NTFS
When I restore the image using IFL to the same or similar drives the extended partition gets changed to type f W95 Ext'd (LBA). The drive will not boot after restore. I tried changing it back to type 5 using fdisk but it still won't boot.
Any suggestions??
Ed
IFL changes extended partition type after restore
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Re: IFL changes extended partition type after restore
What does it do / say?
What linux kernel loader and version are you using?
The 0xF is correct.
I presume you mean you did an "entire drive" backup and then "entire drive"
restore? Do you have the global options "assume same target system"?.
"Ed North" wrote in message news:6981@public.image...
I'm using the latest IFL, 2.85 and have encountered a problem imaging and
restoring one of my hard drives.
I do a full backup of a Linux / Windows hybrid installation and the backup
image maintains the correct partition types. I checked using the command
line -L option. The disk is partitioned as follows.
boot 01 type 83 linux
/ 02 type 83 linux
swap 03 type 82 swap
extended 04 type 5 extended
vol 0 05 type 83 linux
Windows 06 type 7 HPFS/NTFS
When I restore the image using IFL to the same or similar drives the
extended partition gets changed to type f W95 Ext'd (LBA). The drive will
not boot after restore. I tried changing it back to type 5 using fdisk but
it still won't boot.
Any suggestions??
Ed
What linux kernel loader and version are you using?
The 0xF is correct.
I presume you mean you did an "entire drive" backup and then "entire drive"
restore? Do you have the global options "assume same target system"?.
"Ed North" wrote in message news:6981@public.image...
I'm using the latest IFL, 2.85 and have encountered a problem imaging and
restoring one of my hard drives.
I do a full backup of a Linux / Windows hybrid installation and the backup
image maintains the correct partition types. I checked using the command
line -L option. The disk is partitioned as follows.
boot 01 type 83 linux
/ 02 type 83 linux
swap 03 type 82 swap
extended 04 type 5 extended
vol 0 05 type 83 linux
Windows 06 type 7 HPFS/NTFS
When I restore the image using IFL to the same or similar drives the
extended partition gets changed to type f W95 Ext'd (LBA). The drive will
not boot after restore. I tried changing it back to type 5 using fdisk but
it still won't boot.
Any suggestions??
Ed