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Recently I used Clonezilla cloned one hard drive which I installed Opensuse 12.2, include all partitions. When I tried to restore it on another machine (with very similar hardware and same model of hdd), the hard drive won't boot. I just stuck at a black screen with a "-" sign blinking. No error or any message was given.

On the original machine, I have 1 hdd and 2 SSDs. I created partitions as /, /home, /boot, swap, and choose to use volume label instead of uuid or id in the /etc/fstab. The original system works perfectly but the cloned machine just won't boot.

I booted with Opensuse live cd to check out with fdisk -l, it shows that /boot was marked to be bootable, so it's supposed to boot.

When restore on the new machine, in Clonezilla chose "expert" mode there is a "reinstall grub" option, with or without this option been checked, the cloned system just won't boot.

Do you have any idea about this?

Thanks in advance.

Marko
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Finally I found a way out. The reason why cloned drive won't boot is that the hard drive is that there are drives not cloned exist in system and take positions of /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, but they don't have correct entries in fstab and Grub, so Grub can't boot. So I just change the cabling and make cloned drive be the first one, /dev/sda, and set this to target machine as well, then start to clone and restore without any problem. After restore, system can boot, because all new drives will be detected after /dev/sda, so the boot partition won't be influenced.

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