PXE Clonezilla drops to login screen
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I am attempting to PXE boot clonezilla 2.2.1-25.
I am able to TFTP the files correctly to the client machine, and the boot process begins, but after selecting the keyboard layout/keymap, I see an error message:
No account with NOPASSWD sudo privilege was found!
I am then dropped to a login screen:
Debian GNU/Linux jessie/sid localhost.localdomain tty1
localhost login:
I cannot login with user/live - I get the error message:
login incorrect
Here are the PXE server options:
append initrd=NWA_PXE\clonezilla\initrd.img boot=live config noswap nolocales edd=on nomodeset ocs_live_run="ocs-live-general" ocs_live_extra_param="" keyboard-layouts="" ocs_live_batch="no" locales="" vga=788 nosplash noprompt fetch=tftp://192.168.0.100/NWA_PXE/clonezilla/filesystem.squashfs
If I change the boot=live to boot=live-config the machine kernel panics with the error:
line 224: can't open '/scripts/live-config'
I have also tried adding the username=user to the append but this has no effect.
I have a similar issue with the Ubuntu version, and have tried i686 and i486.
Ideally, the system will boot to the usual clonezilla screen to select the device-device or device-image options.
Damian
I can not reproduce the problem here.
My pxelinux config is like:
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label Clonezilla-live
# MENU DEFAULT
# MENU HIDE
MENU LABEL Clonezilla Live 2.2.1-25-i686-pae (Ramdisk)
# MENU PASSWD
KERNEL Clonezilla-live-vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=Clonezilla-live-initrd.img boot=live username=user config quiet noswap edd=on nomodeset locales= keyboard-layouts= ocs_live_run="ocs-live-general" ocs_live_extra_param="" ocs_live_batch=no vga=788 ip= nosplash i915.blacklist=yes radeonhd.blacklist=yes nouveau.blacklist=yes vmwgfx.enable_fbdev=no noprompt fetch=tftp://192.168.1.182/Clonezilla-live-filesystem.squashfs ocs_server="192.168.1.182"
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Steven.
Steven,
Can you please advise the version of pxelinux you are using? Perhaps this makes a difference?
Also, I am unable to find Clonezilla-live-initrd.img on the zip I downloaded:
clonezilla-live-2.2.1-25-i486.zip
Only initrd.img
Damian
Sounds silly, but sometimes the simple things cause the worst headaches.
Is your PXE server on a Windows based machine? Your PXE config has backslashes instead of forward slashes for the location of PXE image.
"append initrd=NWA_PXE\clonezilla\initrd.img"
Also, you can use http to transfer the image instead of tftp protocol. To do that change: "fetch=tftp://192.168.0.100" to "fetch=http://192.168.0.100", and it will use wget to grab the image instead of tftp stuff. Maybe the problem is with your tftp server?
Knight.
Last edit: Knight 2014-03-30
Thankyou, this resolved the issue - I changed all the \ to / and clonezilla now boots via PXE ok.
PS, still used TFTP not http.
Last edit: Damian McMillan 2014-04-01
@Damian,
The pxelinux version I have tested here:
5.10, 6.03-pre7, 6.03-pre10.
Steven.