Clonezilla fails to start after GRUB menu

[Marko]

I have a problem with a computer model where I try to get Clonezilla starting via network boot. I use Clonezilla to install Linux operating systems on computers and with the specific computer, I get the following lines after the GRUB menu:

Busybox /init starting
Mounting /sys filesystem
Mounting /proc filesystem

I have installed Clonezilla server on a Lubuntu 22.04 computer with Linux kernel 6.8.0-40-generic. The computer where I try to get Clonezilla to boot up, seems to have an USB network card, according to lshw command:

sudo lshw -C network
  *-network                 
       description: Ethernet interface
       physical id: 6
       bus info: usb@1:3.2

And lsusb command on the same computer listed this:

...
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 0bda:8153 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8153 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
...

The problem may be related to this, but when I extracted and had a look in the initrd-pxe.img file, in directory ../lib/modules/6.8.0-40-generic/kernel/drivers/net/usb there were at least following files:

r8152.ko
r8153_ecm.ko

So I assume there should be all necessary drivers, so what could the problem be that Clonezilla doesn't start correctly? I have not been able to find any information related to this how this could be fixed.

[Steven Shiau]

Maybe the firmware of your NIC is missing? Especially those proprietary ones...
BTW, have you tried this mode of Clonezilla SE? Using Clonezilla live 20240823-oracular as the OS in the PXE client:
https://clonezilla.org//clonezilla-SE/use_clonezilla_live_in_drbl.php

Steven

[Marko]

Thank you, I wasn't aware of this option. Tried Clonezilla Live in Clonezilla Server and now it looks like it would work. Now it was possible to boot the machine correctly. Just need to test that everything else works too now, but looks promising.

[Steven Shiau]

Thanks for reporting that.
Enjoy Clonezilla!

Steven