When Clonezilla restores or clones a system, it will do some modifications so that the restored OS can be boot or run without less issues. However, if due to some reasons, you want to avoid that, there are some options you can use change in the expert mode:
- "-g auto": this option is used to reinstall grub boot loader for the restored OS. Unselect it then the grub boot loader won't be reinstalled for the restored/cloned GNU/Linux.
- "-ius": this option is used to update the syslinux boot loader and its related files, including the file ldlinux.sys and the files (*.c32 and *.bin) in the dir syslinux. Select it to skip this action.
- "-irhr": this option is used to skip removing the hardware records on the restored OS, including network interface, CD, and machine id. Select it to skip this action.
- "-iui": this option is used to regenerate the initial RAM disk (initrd), which the Linux kernel mounts as part of the two-stage boot process to load the modules to make the real file systems available and get at the real root file system. When a system is restored or cloned on different hardware, it's better to recreate the initrd so that the corresponding kernel modules can be included in initrd. Otherwise the restored GNU/Linux might fail to boot due to the failure of mounting a root file system. Select it to skip this action.
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