I know about Clonezilla and copy pasting partitions with gparted, but can I just use dd to copy a partition with batocera to a USB stick and will it then boot from the stick? Do I have to set the boot flag or take any other steps?

Thank you for any tips.

  • bizdelnick@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    One partition is not enough. You also need to copy a EFI boot partition and create a correct partition table manually. And note that you cannot get a correct result when partitions you are copying are mounted. You need to boot some live system to do this.

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      9 months ago

      I’ve heard that systemd-boot can do it with just one partition but I don’t know howww also somebody please eli5 BTRFS to me, my brain’s doing the full-sponge thing.

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        9 months ago

        It is possible to boot from a single partition, USB live images work this way. But regular installation that OP wants to clone likely has a separate partition.