Clonezilla Boot problem

[deepak727]

Hi members,

I am new to fog project and trying to boot the clonezilla from it.

I have created the menu entry and using the following parameters.

:Clonezilla
echo Starting CloneZilla with default options
kernel http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe/clonezilla/vmlinuz
initrd http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe/clonezilla/initrd.img
imgargs vmlinuz boot=live config noswap nolocales edd=on nomodeset ocs_live_run=“ocs-live-general” ocs_live_extra_param=“” ocs_live_keymap=“” ocs_live_batch=“no” ocs_daemonon=“ssh” usercrypted=Kb/VNchPYhuf6 ocs_lang=“” vga=788 nosplash noprompt fetch=http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe/clonezilla/filesystem.squashfs
boot || goto failed
goto start

:CLONEZILLA
kernel http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe/clonezilla/vmlinuz
initrd http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe/clonezilla/initrd.img
imgargs vmlinuz boot=live username=user fetch=http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe/clonezilla/filesystem.squashfs locale=en_US.UTF-8 keyboard-layouts=NONE
boot || echo failed to boot
prompt
goto MENU

I have got these parameters from Forum.

Now when I am selecting the Clonezilla on boot menu it gives me the below error.

Please let me know that what is wrong with the config.

Your help is appreciated.

Regards,

[Sebastian Roth]

@deepak727 Tried it myself… This worked like a charm in a virtualbox VM:

kernel http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe/clonezilla/vmlinuz
initrd http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe/clonezilla/initrd.img
imgargs vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img boot=live username=user union=overlay config components quiet noswap edd=on nomodeset nodmraid locales= keyboard-layouts= ocs_live_run="ocs-live-general" ocs_live_extra_param="" ocs_live_batch=no net.ifnames=0 nosplash noprompt fetch=http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe/clonezilla/filesystem.squashfs
boot || goto MENU

Your first two parameter sets were missing the very important union=overlay. The one you found on the clonezilla website was right, you just needed to exchange ‘http://’ for ‘tftp://’… So this works just as well for me:

initrd http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe/clonezilla/initrd.img
chain -ar http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe/clonezilla/vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img boot=live username=user union=overlay config components quiet noswap edd=on nomodeset nodmraid locales= keyboard-layouts= ocs_live_run=“ocs-live-general” ocs_live_extra_param="" ocs_live_batch=no net.ifnames=0 nosplash noprompt fetch=http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe/clonezilla/filesystem.squashfs
boot || goto MENU

It’s all about the right parameters.

[Wayne Workman]

There’s two commas in a row in the error, that’s probably related. Most likely meaning there’s two commas somewhere when maybe there should only be one or none.

[deepak727]

Hi @Wayne-Workman

Thanks for the response.

I have checked in my configuration, I have no clue from where those two commas (noatime,dirs=live…) are coming from.

You can see the parameters which I have posted, it doesn’t have those commas or a option of noatime.

Regards,

[Junkhacker]

@deepak727 have you tried the options here? https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/9606/trying-to-add-clonezilla-to-pxe-menu/10

[deepak727]

Hi @Junkhacker

I have gone through the post and used the following code.

initrd http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe/clonezilla/initrd.img
imgfetch http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe/clonezilla/filesystem.squashfs
chain -ar http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe/clonezilla/vmlinuz boot=live username=user union=overlay config components quiet noswap edd=on nomodeset nodmraid locales= keyboard-layouts= ocs_live_run=“ocs-live-general” ocs_live_extra_param="" ocs_live_batch=no net.ifnames=0 nosplash noprompt initrd=initrd.img

Now I am getting the below error

Regards,

[Junkhacker]

@deepak727 “junk in compressed archive” you may want to verify the integrity of your files

[Sebastian Roth]

@deepak727 Which version of clonezilla are you trying to boot? Looks like different versions need different parameters… https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Clonezilla_live/thread/0f8505b0/ and https://sourceforge.net/p/drbl/discussion/Help/thread/a70b3897/

[deepak727]

@Sebastian-Roth

I am using clonezilla 2.5.0-25 the latest stable release. On there website for the PXE boot options they are suggesting to have below settings.

label Clonezilla-live
MENU LABEL Clonezilla Live (Ramdisk)
KERNEL vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=initrd.img boot=live username=user union=overlay config components quiet noswap edd=on nomodeset nodmraid locales= keyboard-layouts= ocs_live_run=“ocs-live-general” ocs_live_extra_param=“” ocs_live_batch=no net.ifnames=0 nosplash noprompt fetch=tftp://$serverIP/filesystem.squashfs

But this is TFTP based

Ref : http://clonezilla.org/livepxe.php

and I am using this with

initrd http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe/clonezilla/initrd.img
imgfetch http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe/clonezilla/filesystem.squashfs
chain -ar http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe/clonezilla/vmlinuz boot=live username=user union=overlay config components quiet noswap edd=on nomodeset nodmraid locales= keyboard-layouts= ocs_live_run=“ocs-live-general” ocs_live_extra_param="" ocs_live_batch=no net.ifnames=0 nosplash noprompt initrd=initrd.img

Please let me know what should be correct parameters.

@Junkhacker

I have checked the file integrity and there is no problem in it.

[Sebastian Roth]

@deepak727 Tried it myself… This worked like a charm in a virtualbox VM:

kernel http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe/clonezilla/vmlinuz
initrd http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe/clonezilla/initrd.img
imgargs vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img boot=live username=user union=overlay config components quiet noswap edd=on nomodeset nodmraid locales= keyboard-layouts= ocs_live_run="ocs-live-general" ocs_live_extra_param="" ocs_live_batch=no net.ifnames=0 nosplash noprompt fetch=http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe/clonezilla/filesystem.squashfs
boot || goto MENU

Your first two parameter sets were missing the very important union=overlay. The one you found on the clonezilla website was right, you just needed to exchange ‘http://’ for ‘tftp://’… So this works just as well for me:

initrd http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe/clonezilla/initrd.img
chain -ar http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe/clonezilla/vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img boot=live username=user union=overlay config components quiet noswap edd=on nomodeset nodmraid locales= keyboard-layouts= ocs_live_run=“ocs-live-general” ocs_live_extra_param="" ocs_live_batch=no net.ifnames=0 nosplash noprompt fetch=http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe/clonezilla/filesystem.squashfs
boot || goto MENU

It’s all about the right parameters.

[deepak727]

@Sebastian-Roth

Yes I tried the below code which you have given and it works, Many thanks.

kernel http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe/clonezilla/vmlinuz
initrd http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe/clonezilla/initrd.img
imgargs vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img boot=live username=user union=overlay config components quiet noswap edd=on nomodeset nodmraid locales= keyboard-layouts= ocs_live_run="ocs-live-general" ocs_live_extra_param="" ocs_live_batch=no net.ifnames=0 nosplash noprompt fetch=http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe/clonezilla/filesystem.squashfs
boot || goto MENU

and yes it is all about the putting right parameters.

Regards,