autorestore USB boot issue and command formattting issue

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autorestore USB boot issue and command formattting issue

Forum: Clonezilla live

Creator: Bill Murray

Created: 2014-03-25

Updated: 2014-03-30

Bill Murray - 2014-03-25

I am trying to get a no monitor, no keyboard, auto restore USB configured.

I cannot understand why the new machines are only reading grub.cfg instead of syslinux.cfg They are HP ProDesk Intel I3 machines with UEFI boot capabilities.

The image is located on a NAS with open permissions for everyone.

This is the menu item I am trying to insert. Getting a Grub > prompt after boot. If I remove this menu item, clonezilla loads to the default menu from the boot usb.

This is using the Saucy build. I have the same behavior with newer builds as well.

menuentry "Clonezilla Unattended Restore ClientName"{
search --set -f /live/vmlinuz
linux /live/vmlinuz boot=live config noswap edd=on nomodeset locales= keyboard-layouts=NONE ocs_prerun1="dhclient -v eth0" ocs_prerun2="sleep 2" ocs_prerun3="mount -t cifs -v 192.168.35.253:/image /home/partimag” ocs_prerun4="sleep 10" ocs_live_run="ocs-sr -g auto -e1 auto -e2 -b -r -j2 -p poweroff restoredisk clientname-desktop sda" ocs_live_extra_param="" ocs_live_batch=yes ocs_prerun5="sleep 10" vga=788 ip= nosplash i915.blacklist=yes radeonhd.blacklist=yes nouveau.blacklist=yes vmwgfx.enable_fbdev=no
initrd /live/initrd.img
}

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Bill Murray - 2014-03-25

A little further. Here is the present grub config. Just trying to get to the point where the image mounts is proving a bit impossible right now. I can mount it from the command line once the script breaks on a test machine with exactly the same syntax as in the script.

This part is failing.

ocs_prerun3="sudo mount -t cifs -o user=administrator,password=,sec=ntlm //192.168.35.253/image /home/partimag"

Fails with or without the sudo. From the command line, I must use sudo. (and it mounts)

Entire menu entry in grub.cfg below.

search --set -f /live/vmlinuz
linux /live/vmlinuz boot=live config noswap edd=on nomodeset locales="en_US.UTF-8" keyboard-layouts=NONE ocs_prerun1="dhclient -v eth0" ocs_prerun2="sleep 2" ocs_prerun3="sudo mount -t cifs -o user=administrator,password=,sec=ntlm //192.168.35.253/image /home/partimag" ocs_live_run="ocs-sr --batch -g auto -e1 auto -e2 -c -r -j2 -k -p true restoredisk ask_user sda" ocs_live_extra_param="" ocs_live_batch=yes vga=791 ip= nosplash i915.blacklist=yes radeonhd.blacklist=yes nouveau.blacklist=yes vmwgfx.enable_fbdev=no
initrd /live/initrd.img

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Bill Murray - 2014-03-26

Further troubleshooting.

This is the command line of my prerun3 which mounts the volume on the NAS where the image is located. I've created a username and password on the share because I wasn't getting a warm and fuzzy putting in a blank password in the script.

ocs_prerun3="sudo mount -t cifs -o user=restore,password=password,sec=ntlm //192.168.35.253/image /home/partimag"

The error message I get is in the somewhat fuzzy photo I've attached.

The boot usb then dumps me to the "Choose Mode" screen. If I select CMD and run the contents verbatim of my prerun3, the volume mounts without issue or prompt.

20140326_084444.jpg

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Bill Murray - 2014-03-26

Also found that the ORDER of the commands in the mount statement is important in this case. Once I reordered the commands, it will go on to the auto restore.

ocs_prerun3="sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.35.253/image /home/partimag -o user=restore,password=password,sec=ntlm"

The image I'm trying to restore is on a Netgear NAS 3100 with an open CIFS share on it. I created a user to target in the script because I was getting nowhere trying to pass null credentials.

Now on to debugging the restore portion.

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Bill Murray - 2014-03-26

And we're done. All working great now.

This is an unbox the pc, hook up a power cord and network cable, insert the USB and walk away configuration for an HP Prodesk Workstation. (we're doing over 300 of them)

image resides on a netgear NAS.

These are UEFI boot machines, so this is in the grub.cfg, with the set timeout option at the top set to "0" rather than "30".

search --set -f /live/vmlinuz
linux /live/vmlinuz boot=live config noswap edd=on nomodeset locales="en_US.UTF-8" keyboard-layouts=NONE ocs_prerun1="dhclient -v eth0" ocs_prerun2="sleep 2" ocs_prerun3="sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.35.253/image /home/partimag -o user=username,password=password,sec=ntlm" ocs_prerun4="sleep 2" ocs_live_run="ocs-sr --batch -g auto -e1 auto -e2 -r -j2 -p poweroff restoredisk clientname-desktop sda" ocs_live_extra_param="" ocs_live_batch=yes vga=791 ip= nosplash i915.blacklist=yes radeonhd.blacklist=yes nouveau.blacklist=yes vmwgfx.enable_fbdev=no
initrd /live/initrd.img

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Steven Shiau - 2014-03-30

Yes, uEFI machine will use grub, as mentioned here:
http://clonezilla.org/fine-print-live-doc.php?path=clonezilla-live/doc/99_Misc/00_live-boot-parameters.doc
It's good to know you have solved the problem there.
Enjoy!

Steven.

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