Linux Mint won't boot after restore

[istoOi]

Hello Folks!

I use Clonezilla Live for over a year for setting up windows workstations. I always save and restore entire HDDs and never had problems with Windows (XP, Vista, 7)

Now i have to setup over 50 PCs (same hardware and disk size) with Linux Mint 13. I used the same options as for windows to save the whole HDD of my "Master-PC" to an image and for restoring it on the other machines.
After reboot the restored machines shows me only a command promt with

Grub>

Semms it could not find any bootable Partition?

After one restore prozess i saw in the promt that clonezilla tryes to restore/install grub 1 but did not find any config file. Strange, because my Mint distribution uses grub 2.0 oO

I tryed few different options for restore, but nothing works:

-g auto -e1 auto -e2 -r -j2 -p true restoredisk
-g auto -e1 auto -e2 -c -r -j2 -p true restoredisk
-g auto -e1 auto -e2 -c -j2 -j0 -p true restoredisk
...

I didn't work so much with Linux, so its hard for me to find out whats wrong or get a solution, so, please help me :)

[Steven Shiau]

Apparently Clonezilla live does not detect the correct version of grub installed on the restored OS.
Which version of Clonezilla live did you use?

Steven.

[istoOi]

How do i find out which version my clonezilla is? I use it only with PXE with unattended configs/scripts. Is there a command for shell?

Anyway... i downloaded the latest stable clonezilla version and replaced the filesystem.squashfs and pxe files on my pxe server. Now clonezilla is able to use/restore grub2 from the image file.

[istoOi]

Additional Question...

i use my own script to start the restore prozess and this won't work with the new clonezilla version. Is there a documentation/wiki where i can find informations for that? google gives me nothing :(

Here the Part of my script. It ends with "Fail to find the Clonezilla image home..." (i think "$ocsroot" was resolved with /home/partimag)

image=${response}

                    ########################
                    ## Load CZ Enviroment ##

                    # Begin of the scripts:
                    # Load DRBL setting and functions
                    DRBL_SCRIPT_PATH="${DRBL_SCRIPT_PATH:-/usr/share/drbl}"

                    . $DRBL_SCRIPT_PATH/sbin/drbl-conf-functions
                    . /etc/drbl/drbl-ocs.conf
                    . $DRBL_SCRIPT_PATH/sbin/ocs-functions

                    # load the setting for clonezilla live.
                    [ -e /etc/ocs/ocs-live.conf ] && . /etc/ocs/ocs-live.conf
                    # Load language files. For English, use "en_US.UTF-8". For Traditional Chinese, use "zh_TW.UTF-8"
                    ask_and_load_lang_set en_US.UTF-8

                    # The above is almost necessary, it is recommended to include them in your own custom-ocs.
                    # From here, you can write your own scripts.

                    # Start Clonezilla
                    if mountpoint $ocsroot &>/dev/null
                    then
                            echo "Clonezilla ready."
                    else
                            [ "$BOOTUP" = "color" ] && $SETCOLOR_FAILURE
                            echo "Fail to find the Clonezilla image home $ocsroot!"
                            echo "Program terminated!"
                            [ "$BOOTUP" = "color" ] && $SETCOLOR_NORMAL
                    exit
                    fi

                    ########################

                    #restore sda
                    ocs-sr -b -g auto -e2 -batch -r -j2 -k1 -p true restoredisk "${image}" "sda"


                    reboot -f

[istoOi]

Solved too.

the custom script was also too old. Found a tutorial here:

http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/doc/07_Customized_script_with_PXE/00_customized_script_with_PXE.doc

Thx anyway, can be closed

greez

[Steven Shiau]

OK, Thanks for sharing that!

Steven.