GRUB after clonezilla

[E.S. Rosenberg]

Are you sure that:
a. the error you get isn't coming from winload.exe
b. vista may not be capable from booting from an area beyond X MB from the
beginning of a disk....


2014-08-24 20:47 GMT+03:00 Aharon Schkolnik <aschkolnik at gmail.com>:

>  Hi.
>
> I used clonezilla to copy a NTFS (Vista) partition to a new disk.
> There were no problems with the  copy, and the new partition looks fine.
> However, I can not get GRUB to boot from the new partition.
>
> grub2-mkconfig does not create a menu entry for it.
>
> I created an entry by hand using the following code:
>
> menuentry "Vista" {
> set root='(hd0,2)'
> chainloader +1
> }
>
> But, when I try to boot from  that entry, I get the error: invalid
> signature.
>
> I ran bootinfoscript, and I saw the following:
>
>
> sda3:
> __________________________________________________________________________
>
>     File system:       ntfs
>     Boot sector type:  Windows Vista/7: NTFS
>     Boot sector info:  According to the info in the boot sector, sda3
> starts
>                        at sector 230686720. But according to the info from
>                        fdisk, sda3 starts at sector 211814400.
>     Operating System:  Windows Vista
>     Boot files:        /Windows/System32/winload.exe
>
>
> So I used testdisk to fix the boot sector, and now:
>
> sda3:
> __________________________________________________________________________
>
>     File system:       ntfs
>     Boot sector type:  Windows XP: NTFS
>     Boot sector info:  No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
>     Operating System:  Windows Vista
>     Boot files:        /Boot/BCD /Windows/System32/winload.exe
>
>
>
> Yet, grub2-mkconfig still doesn't create an entry for the Vista partition.
>
>
> Can anyone help ?
>
> TIA.
>
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