Clonezilla as boot entry

Roken · 2017-11-21 21:43:41

I've tried the wiki, but nothing specific, and I've tried variations on grub2 (BIOS) entries found around the web to get a clonezilla live iso at boot, but I'm drawing a blank.

If I use the entries from the clonezilla website, I get an error informing me I need to load the kernel first.

I did try modifying at boot, and made it past that error to get one telling me it can't find intiramfs.

Is there a failsafe way to boot a clonezilla iso via grub2 on Arch, using BIOS.

I know it can be done, I used to have it working, but since then, I was using burg (without the clonezilla boot) for a couple of years, and have recently gone back to grub2, but I'm drawing a blank.

I had a look specifically at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mu … _USB_drive and http://clonezilla.org/livehd.php but neither are giving me a result.

If you need more info, tell me what. If I've failed to find something obvious, please also tell me. After three hours, I'm out of ideas.

Last edited by Roken (2017-11-21 21:45:43)

seth · 2017-11-21 21:52:05

No idea about "clonezilla", but to boot an iso see http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=MEMDISK

Roken · 2017-11-22 22:34:59

memdisk is promising, but the hoops you have to jump through mean it's not the answer.

Previously, however I managed it, was just a standard grub2 entry, and that's what I want. I'm not scared of directly editing grub.cfg. It's the entries I need to know.

seth · 2017-11-23 07:40:07

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mu … ly_release ?

Roken · 2017-11-24 22:33:49

Thank you, but...

I thought I'd tested that, but gave it another go. Still getting the message telling me I need to load the kernel first (Loop doesn't seem to be available when it tries to load).

Slithery · 2017-11-24 22:47:39

How about...

menuentry "clonezilla" {
   set isofile="/path/to/clonezilla.iso"
   loopback loop (hd0,4)$isofile
   linux (loop)/live/vmlinuz boot=live components config findiso=$isofile ip=frommedia toram=filesystem.squashfs union=overlay username=user
   initrd (loop)/live/initrd.img
}

Obviously editing the isofile and loop addresses for your system.

Last edited by Slithery (2017-11-24 22:47:59)

seth · 2017-11-24 22:50:38

find /boot/grub -iname '*loopback*'

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Clonezilla as boot entry

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