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MAYBL8

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[SOLVED] Clonezilla startup issues

Trying to use Clonezilla to make back up of my entire drive.
I created a menu entry and that is there and launches clonezilla.
After selecting Clonezilla it seems to hang for a long time on trying to find a network.
This is on a Laptop that only has wireless on it so I understand it wants a wired connection.
Not sure if there is a way to skip it looking for a network.
Next and biggest issue on this laptop is screen resolution.
I am running the live iso from the grub boot menu so it just tries to boot straight into clonezilla without showing me any clonezilla menu choices and when it finally gets to a prompt of some kind it is so small I can't read it.
It seems to hang on the tty screen and then after I hit enter a few times I see a blue screen with some text that I can't read either.
What can I do to be able to use it?

I am going to edit this post with my system specs shortly.
Thanks

System:
  Kernel: 6.14.7-arch2-1 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 15.1.1
    clocksource: tsc avail: acpi_pm parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-linux
    root=UUID=91f4ccdf-2376-48ab-a390-91ea0bc4b02a rw loglevel=3
    nvidia_drm.modeset=1 fbcon=font:TER16x32 vt.color=0x17
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.3.5 tk: Qt v: N/A wm: kwin_wayland
    tools: xscreensaver,xscreensaver-systemd avail: swayidle,swaylock dm: SDDM
    Distro: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Convertible System: HP product: HP Spectre x360 Convertible 15-df1xxx
    v: N/A serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 31 serial: <filter>
  Mobo: HP model: 863F v: 54.24 serial: <filter> part-nu: 7UT64UA#ABA
    uuid: 39444335-3134-5142-354e-4e5131344435 UEFI: AMI v: F.32
    date: 12/08/2023
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 88.3 Wh (98.3%) condition: 89.8/89.8 Wh (100.0%)
    volts: 13.2 min: 11.6 model: HP Primary type: Li-ion serial: <filter>
    status: charging cycles: 35
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i7-10510U socket: BGA1528 (U3E1) note: check
    bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Comet/Whiskey Lake note: check gen: core 10
    level: v3 note: check built: 2018 process: Intel 14nm family: 6
    model-id: 0x8E (142) stepping: 0xC (12) microcode: 0x100
  Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 clusters: 4 cores: 4 threads: 8 tpc: 2
    smt: enabled cache: L1: 256 KiB desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 1024 KiB
    desc: 4x256 KiB L3: 8 MiB desc: 1x8 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 3300 min/max: 400/4900 base/boost: 2574/8300 scaling:
    driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave volts: 0.8 V ext-clock: 100 MHz
    cores: 1: 3300 2: 3300 3: 3300 4: 3300 5: 3300 6: 3300 7: 3300 8: 3300
    bogomips: 36799
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: gather_data_sampling mitigation: Microcode
  Type: ghostwrite status: Not affected
  Type: indirect_target_selection mitigation: Aligned branch/return thunks
  Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: Split huge pages
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds status: Not affected
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: mmio_stale_data mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
  Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: retbleed mitigation: Enhanced IBRS
  Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
    prctl
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
    sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Enhanced / Automatic IBRS; IBPB:
    conditional; PBRSB-eIBRS: SW sequence; BHI: SW loop, KVM: SW loop
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel CometLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics] vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-9.5 process: Intel 14nm built: 2016-20
    ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1,DP-2 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:9b41
    class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP108M [GeForce MX250] vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: nvidia v: 570.153.02 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm
    non-free: 550-570.xx+ status: current (as of 2025-04; EOL~2026-12-xx)
    arch: Pascal code: GP10x process: TSMC 16nm built: 2016-2021 pcie: gen: 3
    speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 4 bus-ID: 3b:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1d13 class-ID: 0302
  Device-3: Generic HP Wide Vision FHD Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB
    rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-5:3 chip-ID: 04f2:b67b
    class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
  Display: unspecified server: X.Org v: 24.1.6 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.6
    compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: modesetting,nvidia
    alternate: fbdev,intel,nouveau,nv,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915 display-ID: :0
    screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3840x2160 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1016x572mm (40.00x22.52")
    s-diag: 1166mm (45.9") monitors: <missing: xrandr>
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: AU Optronics 0x30eb built: 2017 res: 3840x2160
    dpi: 284 gamma: 1.2 size: 344x193mm (13.54x7.6") diag: 394mm (15.5")
    ratio: 16:9 modes: 3840x2160
  API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel iris drv: nvidia nouveau drv: nvidia
    platforms: device: 0 drv: nvidia device: 1 drv: nouveau device: 2 drv: iris
    device: 3 drv: swrast gbm: drv: nvidia surfaceless: drv: nvidia x11:
    drv: iris inactive: wayland
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 570.153.02
    glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce MX250/PCIe/SSE2
    memory: 1.95 GiB
  API: Vulkan v: 1.4.313 layers: 1 device: 0 type: discrete-gpu
    name: NVIDIA GeForce MX250 driver: nvidia v: 570.153.02 device-ID: 10de:1d13
    surfaces: N/A
  Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
    de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor gpu: nvidia-smi wl: swaymsg,wayland-info
    x11: xdpyinfo,xprop
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH-LP cAVS vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_avs,snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl
    bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:02c8 class-ID: 0401
  API: ALSA v: k6.14.7-arch2-1 status: kernel-api
    tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: sndiod v: N/A status: off tools: aucat,midicat,sndioctl
  Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off tools: N/A
  Server-3: PipeWire v: 1.4.2 status: n/a (root, process)
    with: pipewire-media-session status: active tools: pw-cli
  Server-4: PulseAudio v: 17.0-43-g3e2bb status: active (root, process)
    with: pulseaudio-alsa type: plugin tools: pacat,pactl,pavucontrol
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH-LP CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
    bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:02f0 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlp0s20f3 state: up mac: <filter>
  Info: services: NetworkManager, systemd-timesyncd, wpa_supplicant
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth Radio driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 1.1
    speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-1:2 chip-ID: 0bda:8771
    class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
  Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.1
    lmp-v: 10 status: discoverable: no pairing: no class-ID: 6c0000
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 58.97 GiB (6.3%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung
    model: SSD 970 EVO Plus 1TB size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
    logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter>
    fw-rev: 2B2QEXM7 temp: 49.9 C scheme: GPT
  SMART: yes health: PASSED on: 97d 6h cycles: 3,281
    read-units: 76,410,111 [39.1 TB] written-units: 60,901,366 [31.1 TB]
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 64.57 GiB size: 63.38 GiB (98.16%) used: 58.9 GiB (92.9%)
    fs: ext4 block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/nvme0n1p9 maj-min: 259:9
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 499 MiB size: 498 MiB (99.80%)
    used: 76.3 MiB (15.3%) fs: vfat block-size: 512 B dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
    maj-min: 259:2
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  Src: /sys System Temperatures: cpu: 60.0 C pch: 57.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
  Memory: total: 16 GiB note: est. available: 15.25 GiB used: 3.15 GiB (20.7%)
    igpu: 64 MiB
  Processes: 306 Power: uptime: 1m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: s2idle
    wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot, suspend, test_resume
    image: 6.07 GiB services: org_kde_powerdevil,upowerd Init: systemd v: 257
    default: graphical tool: systemctl
  Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1034 libs: 228 tools: yay Compilers:
    gcc: 15.1.1 Shell: Sudo (sudo) v: 1.9.16p2 default: Bash v: 5.2.37
    running-in: alacritty inxi: 3.3.38

I see I received many views on this issue but no responses.  So I started doing some research and discoverd that Clonezilla uses some boot parameters that start with ocs_*   . I tried putting several of these in the GRUB command line but that had no effect.
So I put them int 40_custom menu entry and started getting some results but not helping me solve my issues.
What turned out to work for me was one simple command in the boot parameter in the 40_custom file. That parameter was nomodeset.
Now I can see the fonts and run Clonezilla.
Hope this helps someone.

Last edited by MAYBL8 (2025-05-27 20:27:38)

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