Cloning from running SD card to external card fails - cannot boot from cloned card

[carylewis]

I recently started using bookworm on my raspberry pi 4b, and since then the rpi-clone utility does not work.

It does not generate any errors, but the system will not boot from a cloned card.

The Pi reports "Firmware not found" on the display.

Using the Pi's sd card clone utility works fine.

Please let me know how I can troubleshoot rpi-clone.

[fmarzocca]

Did you install latest version 2.0.23?

[carylewis]

Yes, I did a fresh install before posting.

[carylewis]

I ran sudo rpi-clone -x -v -f sdb | tee out, and didn't see any references to making the the sd card bootable? Is rpi-clone supposed to do that, or is there a manual step I should be performing?

Here is the start of the log:

Initializing
  Imaging past partition 1 start.
  => dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=/dev/sdb bs=1M count=8 ...
  Resizing destination disk last partition ...
    Resize success.
  Changing destination Disk ID ...
  => mkfs -t vfat -F 32  /dev/sdb1 ...
  => mkfs -t ext4  /dev/sdb2 ...

[carylewis]

If I use piclone to copy the running system to an external card, that card boots fine, and then I can use rpi-clone without the -f option to update it, it continues to boot correctly.

[fmarzocca]

If I use piclone to copy the running system to an external card, that card boots fine, and then I can use rpi-clone without the -f option to update it, it continues to boot correctly.

That's interesting, Some developer should jump in....

[fmarzocca]

An interesting test could be this:

• initialize the SD with sudo rpi-clone -f sdb
• at the end run a simple update with sudo rpi-clone sdb
• check if the clone boots

[carylewis]

An interesting test could be this:

• initialize the SD with sudo rpi-clone -f sdb
• at the end run a simple update with sudo rpi-clone sdb
• check if the clone boots

This did not work.