cant boot clonezilla live with DRBL

[robina80]

hi all,

configured DRBL to just use it with clonezilla live OS and when i did command "drblpush -i"

i answered to the questions

2 - i do not want to provide diskless linux service to client
3 - use clonezilla live as the os
2 - alternative stable (ubuntu based)

and it says the cpu arch for clients when running clonezilla job is "amd64"

it boots succesfully into DRBL as i see the pxe screen and i select "clonezilla" but now i get the below about my nic driver, ive tried the "alternative stable" and the "alternative testing"

thanks,
rob

[robina80]

ok im getting somewhere...(see pic)

what i did was in /etc/exports all the shares i changed the ip to a * so all clients can access, then i did

systemctl restart nfs-kernel-server
exportfs -av

but now for some reason it thinks my nfs server is the gateway ip, how do i change this to the DRBL's server ip

dont know why this is happening as i did run below as i have another dhcp server

/usr/sbin/drbl-proxy-dhcp enable

any help please

thanks,
rob

[Steven Shiau]

Maybe you can download Clonezilla live >= 3.2.2-5 or 20250512-plucky, and use the command "drbl-ocs-live-prep -i clonezilla-live-3.2.2-5-amd64.iso", for example, to configure it for your PXE client machines. For more info, please check:
https://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-SE/use_clonezilla_live_in_drbl.php
Another way is you can try Clonezilla lite server, it's easier:
https://clonezilla.org//fine-print-live-doc.php?path=clonezilla-live/doc/11_lite_server

[robina80]

is that the problem tho to download a different iso, i think this one works but it cant find the nfs server as that ip is my gateway ip not the DRBL ip

im trying this command to point to my nfs server

drbl-ocs-live-prep -a x64 -b alternative -s 10.110.10.60 -i clonezilla-live-20250512-plucky-x64.iso
Try to download Clonezilla live iso file from network...
The CPU arch for client was assigned as: x64
Available Clonezilla live iso URL: clonezilla-live-20250512-plucky-x64.iso
Put Clonezilla live in this DRBL server...
Modifying option diskless_client_os in drbl-ocs.conf...
root@clonezilla:~#

this doesnt look like its downloaded the iso file, so where do i put the iso file please or the contents of it, also do i need to modify "grub.cfg"?

OR

do i need to a put my nfs server ip in below

menuentry "Clonezilla" --id clonezilla-se-client {
  echo "Enter Clonezilla..."
  echo 'Loading Linux kernel vmlinuz-pxe...'
  $linux_cmd vmlinuz-pxe devfs=nomount drblthincli=off selinux=0 quiet text 1 drbl_bootp=$net_default_next_server edd=on
  echo 'Loading initial ramdisk initrd-pxe.img...'
  $initrd_cmd initrd-pxe.img

shall i append in "$linux_cmd" like

netboot=nfs nfsroot=192.168.150.254:/tftpboot/node_root/clonezilla-live/ ocs_server="192.168.150.254"

but change the ips to my DRBL server ?

thanks,
rob

[robina80]

ok ive sorted it by following this link

https://std.rocks/gnulinux_clonezilla_drbl.html

menuentry "Clonezilla-live" --id clonezilla-se-client {
  echo "Enter Clonezilla..."
  echo 'Loading Linux kernel vmlinuz-pxe...'
  #Add live-netdev="eth0" to force eth0 as primary interface and avoid WWAN0 boot priority see : https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Help/thread/1f90134ddd/
  $linux_cmd Clonezilla-live-vmlinuz initrd=Clonezilla-live-initrd.img boot=live union=overlay username=user hostname=hirsute config components noswap edd=on nomodeset enforcing=0 locales=en_US.UTF-8 keyboard-layouts=en ocs_live_extra_param= ocs_live_batch=no net.ifnames=0 noeject netboot=nfs nfsroot=192.168.10.1:/tftpboot/node_root/clonezilla-live/ ocs_server="192.168.10.1" ocs_daemonon=\"ssh\" ocs_prerun=\"mount -t nfs 192.168.10.1:/home/partimag /home/partimag/\" ocs_live_run=\"clonezilla -l en_US.UTF-8 -p choose  -k --skip-lite-menu  \"
  echo 'Loading initial ramdisk initrd-pxe.img...'
  $initrd_cmd Clonezilla-live-initrd.img
}

i think you guys need to update your clonezilla pxe section as its old

https://clonezilla.org/livepxe.php

[robina80]

ok trying this but i got a error, can you let me know whats wrong

$linux_cmd Clonezilla-live-vmlinuz initrd=Clonezilla-live-initrd.img boot=live union=overlay username=user config components noswap edd=on nomodeset enforcing=0 locales=en_US.UTF-8 keyboard-layouts=us ocs_live_extra_param= ocs_live_batch=no net.ifnames=0 nosplash noeject netboot=nfs nfsroot=10.100.1.1:/tftpboot/node_root/clonezilla-live/ ocs_server="10.100.1.1" ocs_daemonon=\"ssh\" ocs_prerun=\"mount -t nfs 10.100.1.1:/home/partimag /home/partimag/\" ocs_live_run=\"ocs-sr -l en_US.UTF-8 -g auto -e1 auto -e2 -r -k1 -p reboot\"

basically i just want to run clonezilla live pxe and ask them whether they want to save or restore disk/part, so im thinking something is wrong with my "ocs_live_run", also i want to change from nfs to smb for the clonezilla repositry?

thanks,
rob

[robina80]

tbh im closing this thread as I have done it following this guide as described before

https://std.rocks/gnulinux_clonezilla_drbl.html