Thread: HOW TO: Simplest and Complete Cloning of OS to MMC; Dual-Booting
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2008-12-07 , 16:08
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Originally Posted by musicfanat View Post
Please could anybody help me what to do if I want to boot from logical partition?
I followed the instructions, and cloned the system to different partitions for experiments. It boots fine from p2 and p3, but fails from logical ones - p5, p6, p7. When booted I can mount all partitions including logical, they are all operational.
So I'm now out of any ideas, how to make it work, please help!
Is it possible to bbot from logical partition???
Install Gparted-hack (pre-req for mgmt-tools) and mgmt-tools. Use mgmt-tools, to select the partitions to include in the bootmenu, and write out new bootmenu.

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The actual issue is that the higher partitions devices /dev/mmcblk0p(567) are not on the initfs, thus not available at boot time. mgmt-tools takes this into account and writes out working bootmenus, with the devices.
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