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Multiple Partitions imaged through BootIt Maintenance Image.
After much consternation W7 now boots.
Linux Mint 17 Partition WILL NOT BOOT. "INSERT INSTALLATION MEDIA"
EMBR in use with more than 4 partitions.
BootIt Menu configured.

Linux selection from Menu not booting.

Probably something simple on RESTORE.

Any ideas on a simple solution?

Making an Image is NOT useful if one can not Restore it (Same Physical Hard Drive, Same laptop)

DELTA624826 wrote:
> Multiple Partitions imaged through BootIt Maintenance Image.
> After much consternation W7 now boots.
> Linux Mint 17 Partition WILL NOT BOOT. "INSERT INSTALLATION
> MEDIA"
> EMBR in use with more than 4 partitions.
> BootIt Menu configured.
>
> Linux selection from Menu not booting.
>
> Probably something simple on RESTORE.
>
> Any ideas on a simple solution?
>
> Making an Image is NOT useful if one can not Restore it (Same Physical Hard
> Drive, Same laptop)

The two main things to check would be:

1.Make sure your Linux boot item is configured correctly, and is specifying the correct Linux partition to boot from.

2. For the Linux partition you are booting from (the one set as the partition to boot from in Boot Edit), go to Partition Work and look at the Properties for that partition. In the Additional Information section, it should say "Bootable: Yes". If not, that means the Grub boot loader code is not installed in the boot sector of the partition, which means Linux is not going to boot from that partition.

For (2) above, the boot code not being installed in the partition would not be caused by the restore (nothing special needs to be done on restore). It would indicate that you are either booting from the wrong partition (boot item configured incorrectly), or that Grub was never installed to the partition to begin with.

Was this partition booting successfully from BootIt BM (as opposed to booting from Grub installed in the MBR) when you created the backup image?

Apologies for the time lag. GRANCHILDEN.....

SOMEWHERE in my situation I have "gone wrong" with in the IMAGE or the RESTORE.
My goal is to be able to restore multiple OS partitions onto one physical drive (and they run again).
This is for FUN, I am retired.

I have no problem restoring individual files
Thus far, I have IMAGED with multiple files. This could be the problem.
IMAGE has failed (more than once) to do a "single file IMAGE" of the entire physical drive. (SYS, W7, LINUX, LINUX SWAP, DATA).
SYS, W7, and DATA are NTFS. LINUX and SWAP are the appropriate file structures.

When the Linux partition was imaged, it booted from the following menu specs
Linux
Linux SWAP
DATA

Boot from LINUX.

The failed RESTORE'd partition had an identical MENU.

ZERO problem booting before. Partition WAS "Bootable". It was installed after BOOTIT into that LINUX partition, using instructions from a TeraByte Forum.

LINUX Partition was "corrupted" during an update. Deleted Partition. Also deleted Windows.
Restored all. Neither worked from Menu. Moved the Windows partition up and down (as instructed) to "align" same.
Windows FINALLY worked.
LINUX partition never recovered. I deleted LINUX and SWAP partitions, re-created same, re-installed same. Works OK, now from above menu.

I use LINUX as a novelty. It's fun and easy to install. It is just frustrating for it NOT to work on RESTORE. I had MORE than the required space available when it restored. So far I am on the GUI end of LINUX. While I have heard of it, I am clueless about "GRUB". I assume the LINUX partition has its GRUB.

I have GREAT success in moving BOOT MNGR and BOOT subdirectory to W7 partition, removing the need for the SYS partition.
I have no problem re-installing the Multiple OS partitions (other than the endless MS updates).
Data recovers well AND I have copies elsewhere.

Thank you for your time.

Just do an entire drive backup and restore. Consider running fsck -f on
your unmounted partitions before the next backup to ensure all areas are
correctly marked as used. For windows, chkdsk /f. However moving the
Windows 7 partition up and down in the mbr details isn't going to change
anything, so by doing that and it booting makes no sense. Also, if you had
installed BootIt and then started messing with other things where there is
an EMBR and the EMBR and MBR are out of sync, then your backup is going to
be based on the EMBR and may be relating to older partitions which were
overwritten by allowing other things to change it and then not booting back
to BootIt to clean it up. The programs will have an out of sync message
when showing the drives when MBR and EMBR are out of sync.

For full drive backup, you just choose it and save to the target drive.
Just use the default of a single file.


"DELTA624826" wrote in message news:[email protected]...

Apologies for the time lag. GRANCHILDEN.....

SOMEWHERE in my situation I have "gone wrong" with in the IMAGE or the
RESTORE.
My goal is to be able to restore multiple OS partitions onto one physical
drive (and they run again).
This is for FUN, I am retired.

I have no problem restoring individual files
Thus far, I have IMAGED with multiple files. This could be the problem.
IMAGE has failed (more than once) to do a "single file IMAGE" of the entire
physical drive. (SYS, W7, LINUX, LINUX SWAP, DATA).
SYS, W7, and DATA are NTFS. LINUX and SWAP are the appropriate file
structures.

When the Linux partition was imaged, it booted from the following menu specs
Linux
Linux SWAP
DATA

Boot from LINUX.

The failed RESTORE'd partition had an identical MENU.

ZERO problem booting before. Partition WAS "Bootable". It was installed
after BOOTIT into that LINUX partition, using instructions from a TeraByte
Forum.

LINUX Partition was "corrupted" during an update. Deleted Partition. Also
deleted Windows.
Restored all. Neither worked from Menu. Moved the Windows partition up and
down (as instructed) to "align" same.
Windows FINALLY worked.
LINUX partition never recovered. I deleted LINUX and SWAP partitions,
re-created same, re-installed same. Works OK, now from above menu.

I use LINUX as a novelty. It's fun and easy to install. It is just
frustrating for it NOT to work on RESTORE. I had MORE than the required
space available when it restored. So far I am on the GUI end of LINUX. While
I have heard of it, I am clueless about "GRUB". I assume the LINUX partition
has its GRUB.

I have GREAT success in moving BOOT MNGR and BOOT subdirectory to W7
partition, removing the need for the SYS partition.
I have no problem re-installing the Multiple OS partitions (other than the
endless MS updates).
Data recovers well AND I have copies elsewhere.

Thank you for your time.