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.

  • Krafty Kactus@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    111·
    9 months ago

    If you dd your entire laptop drive to the entire flash drive it should be able to boot. It might not work the same with just one partition though. Also, how big is your USB stick!?!?

    • bartolomeo@suppo.fiOP
      4·
      9 months ago

      Lmao they are huge these days! But I’m talking about a 40gb partition, cloning it to a 64gb stick.

      You can’t even buy 2gb sticks anymore :/

      • bizdelnick@lemmy.ml
        3·
        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.