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I recently had to reinstall Ubuntu on the server hosting Clonezilla. After setting drbl and Clonezilla back up, the client PC will boot to drbl fine. But if I set dcs so that the Clonezilla options are chosen in-client, the client won't go beyond the first menu and I get a purple background instead of the pink one I was used to. After about 5 seconds, the screen goes black but the computer stays on. This has happened on two different computers on which I've been able to test Clonezilla.

In contrast, selecting other options in dcs like Save Disk allows Clonezilla to work, but with some minor graphical errors that don't seem to interfere with functionality.

Following the debug procedure given in http://drbl.sourceforge.net/faq/fine-print.php?path=./2_System/21_how_to_debug_clonezilla.faq#21_how_to_debug_clonezilla.faq
yields red text at "no clonezilla param in /proc/cmdline."

Below is the pxelinux.cfg/default for the Save Disk dcs option

label clonezilla
  MENU DEFAULT
  # MENU HIDE
  MENU LABEL Clonezilla: save disk (choose later) as image (choose later)
  # MENU PASSWD
  kernel vmlinuz-pxe
  append initrd=initrd-pxe.img devfs=nomount drblthincli=off selinux=0 text 1 edd=on   en_US.UTF-8 -p true  ocs_opt="-l en_US.UTF-8  --use-partclone --clone-hidden-data -p choose -z1p -i 1000000 savedisk ask_user ask_user"
-p choose  -k select_in_client " en_US.UTF-8 -p true 
-p choose  -k select_in_client " en_US.UTF-8 -p true 
-p choose  -k select_in_client " en_US.UTF-8 -p true 
-p choose  -k select_in_client " en_US.UTF-8 -p true 
-p choose  -k select_in_client " en_US.UTF-8 -p true 
-p choose  -k select_in_client " en_US.UTF-8 -p true 
-p choose  -k select_in_client " en_US.UTF-8 -p true 
-p choose  -k select_in_client " en_US.UTF-8 -p true 
-p choose  -k select_in_client " en_US.UTF-8 -p true 
-p choose  -k select_in_client " en_US.UTF-8 -p true 
-p choose  -k select_in_client " en_US.UTF-8 -p true 
-p choose -k select_in_client "
  TEXT HELP

  * Clonezilla version: 3.4.9-drbl1. (C) 2003-2013, NCHC, Taiwan
  * Disclaimer: Clonezilla comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
  ENDTEXT

And this is the Select in Client option that doesn't work. I can't really see any differences that would cause one to boot and the other not to.

label clonezilla
  MENU DEFAULT
  # MENU HIDE
  MENU LABEL Clonezilla: choose save or restore later
  # MENU PASSWD
  kernel vmlinuz-pxe
  append initrd=initrd-pxe.img devfs=nomount drblthincli=off selinux=0 text 1 edd=on   en_US.UTF-8 -p true  ocs_opt="-l en_US.UTF-8 -p choose  -k select_in_client "
-p choose  -k select_in_client " en_US.UTF-8 -p true 
-p choose  -k select_in_client " en_US.UTF-8 -p true 
-p choose  -k select_in_client " en_US.UTF-8 -p true 
-p choose  -k select_in_client " en_US.UTF-8 -p true 
-p choose  -k select_in_client " en_US.UTF-8 -p true 
-p choose  -k select_in_client " en_US.UTF-8 -p true 
-p choose  -k select_in_client " en_US.UTF-8 -p true 
-p choose  -k select_in_client " en_US.UTF-8 -p true 
-p choose  -k select_in_client " en_US.UTF-8 -p true 
-p choose  -k select_in_client " en_US.UTF-8 -p true 


Update:
I can get past the first screen after some guess work with the keyboard. I can select options with a combination of tab, space, enter, and the first letters of the corresponding options. However, using the arrow keys causes the screen to go black. Also, there's very limited responsiveness using the current keyboard workarounds.
-p choose  -k select_in_client " en_US.UTF-8 -p true 
-p choose -k select_in_client "
  TEXT HELP

  * Clonezilla version: 3.4.9-drbl1. (C) 2003-2013, NCHC, Taiwan
  * Disclaimer: Clonezilla comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
  ENDTEXT

It could possibly be a problem with the keymap, since I've noticed the screen only goes black if some keys are pressed. I added keyboard-layouts=NONE to the pxelinux.cfg/default file but still had the issue.

Last edit: Josh 2013-07-22

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