Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Fix for re-imaging Lenovo X61t laptops


Problem:

Re-imaging using Clonezilla and rebooting a Lenovo X61t laptop threw up the error "Signature Failure"

Solution:
Quoting from http://www.ecs.umass.edu/pipermail/umasslug/2008-August/003380.html
However:  I did get the idea from various 
websites that it seemed to be an issue with the MBR, so I started
playing with options in Clonezilla. It turns out that if I de-select
the -g auto and -r options, and select -t1, the system works. I've just
confirmed on two of the broken systems, so it looks like it's going to
be a consistent fix.

It looks like this is a common issue on the Lenovo laptops, so I'm
glad to have found a solution. (Also, I've got six more to image today,
and possibly more next week...)
That worked.  It appears that -t1 replaces the MBR with the pre-made syslinux MBR.a