Setting up a dualboot by installing cloned partitions using clonezilla
- by Nimjox
I'm trying to setup a dual boot system where I have Windows 7 and Linux Mint. Here's the kicker both are partitions I've saved using Clonzezilla from different places and to make matters worse Linux Mint is formated as a LVM. I need both of these images specifically as windows is a corporate image that I must use and the other is a development image that took me a week to setup.
I've gotten it almost all working but my issue is that I can't get clonezilla to not mess up the partition table of Windows when installing Mint or vise-vera. I can use the (-k1 option) which doens't copy the partition table but then I have a unusable partition when it clones and I'm not sure how to fix the partition table. Here's what I'm doing:
Using Gparted to make partitions sda1 40GB ntfs (windows), sda2
extended 70GB, sda5 lvm2 pv 69.99 GB (Linux), sda3 500MB (GRUB)
Clonezilla windows image into sda1 partition (keeping partition
table)
Clonezilla linux image into sda5 partition (not recreating partition
table)
After all that I can boot into windows using the default MBR. I can use rescue-repair cd to reinstall GRUB which will see Windows 7 but I can't get it to see the Linux OS. I'm thinking its because of the sda5 partition but I'm not sure any ideas on what I could do to get this working or where I might be going wrong. If there is any additional detail you need please let me know and I'll edit as this is a lot.
