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#316 Can't create a autorun recovery Clonezilla live CD or USB when running Clonezilla Live on PXE Server
Essentially, this:
https://clonezilla.org/livepxe.php
breaks this:
https://clonezilla.org/show-live-doc-content.php?topic=clonezilla-live/doc/04_Create_Recovery_Clonezilla
due to some missing files.
The fetch command from live-boot can only fetch a file, not a whole dir or something else. Therefore that's why it fails I believe.
A workaround now is you try to PXE boot the iso file, something like this:
https://oitibs.com/pxe-boot-almost-any-iso-image/
Let us know the results if you try. Thanks.
Steven
Thanks for the suggestion Steve. Unfortunately, it did not work.
I believe it is failing because "this will only work as long the operating system is accessing the virtual disk using the BIOS. After the operating system loads its own drivers for accessing the controller it's very likely that this virtual disk can be no longer accessed."1
I've attached a screenshot of the failure message.
1 https://wiki.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=Boot_an_Iso_image
The issue in the screenshot looks like it lacks the drive to access your disk. It should be able to access the disk if there is the required modules from Linux kernel.
Which version of Clonezilla live did you use for PXE booting? Have you tried the latest testing one, 2.6.1-19?
https://clonezilla.org/downloads.php
Steven
Yes, specifically I tried it with both:
each failed with the same message.
...except of course the reported version of busybox was different. But neither could finish booting.
Honestly, this bug is lower on my personal list of priorities than the other one I reported (#314). The reason being that I can use PXE to create a regular image which I save to NFS and then inside a virtual machine I go ahead and make the "autorun recovery iso" from what was saved on NFS.
I don't mind this being two distinct steps since I usually replace the unrecongnized partition types (which were imaged with dd; encrypted swaps & zfs l2arc) with empty gz files instead. This way the resulting iso can fit on a single layer DVD. Again, see #314 for more details on this.
Thanks 1e6,
Dino