There is a strange problem with running Clonezilla on my new system. I had googled extensively all the possible clues as to why its not working, as well as described the symptoms to my IT dept's folks (on a personal non-work basis of course) but with no solutions. Some suggested that its a USB driver issue, others blame the safe boot but I'm starting to think its a display issue.
However, after selecting any of the modes for the various possible screen resolutions, a lot of text will scroll by but before loading into the language selection screen, the text suddenly becomes an infinite scrolling wall of text like this: http://imgur.com/Mv0ivcX
This text can scroll forever.
I had googled various forms of the text "hid-generic 0003 can't reset device status -32" but no one seemed to have the same problem as I do. The results were mostly about keyboards and usb hubs.
In certain modes, the text will quickly deteriorate into gibberish symbols, mostly with a "^" above them.
What is most frustrating, was that intermittently, I had been able to reach the language selection screen (mostly via KMS mode), but it is frozen (cannot move selection, cannot select).
On 3 occasions so far (after a week of trying and at least 80 reboots), I had been able to actually select language and from there it worked & I was able to clone an image of the drive. On the 3rd time this happened though, some red error text about "nouveau" followed by some numbers kept appearing during selection or when keying in the name of the cloned image, but that didn't prevent the process from proceeding.
This success is entirely random apparently as rebooting without changing anything in the BIOS will result in the wall of scrolling text again.
So now I have 3 images of my system but I'm not able to clone it to a new drive because I cannot get Clonezilla to work consistently.
I've tried using amd64 and i486 versions of Clonezilla 2.1.2-43, on USB drives of 256mb, 1GB and 2GB (on both USB2.0 & 3.0 slots), as well as bootable .iso in DVD (sata2). All produced the identical wall of text.
Of the 3 times I had succeeded, they were all on the amd64 version, twice via USB and once via DVD.
The PC is new, running Windows 7 ultimate.
MB: Asus Maximus V Formula with latest BIOS
CPU: i7 3770K
Mem: Corsair vengeance 1600 4x4gb
GPU: EVGA 680GTX Classified 4GB
Since I'm able to boot from the USB & DVD & load Clonezilla mid-way, I'm quite sure my BIOS settings is correct for booting from legacy and non-UEFI sources.
I apologize if my descriptions of the problem is not in "programming speak" so to say. Please let me know what other information would be useful to help diagnose the problem and I'll do my best to provide it, although I may need some help with collecting/extracting. Eg. How can I save all that text that simply flew by after I had selected the mode? Is there a log file I can create?
Thanks alot in advance and appreciate all and any help.
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Hi.
Sorry, i'm a french user.
"This success is entirely random apparently as rebooting without changing anything in the BIOS" : have you tested the RAM with memtest86+ ?
Other test with RAM : try with only 2gb and try with an different slot ..
With the USB key, have you try on an other computer ?
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Thank you for replying. Your anglais is very clear :)
You suspect that the RAM are the reason?
The RAM had been slightly overclocked (1600 to 2133) and did pass memtest but I'll try at its original stock speed tonight again.
I've tried one of the USB on a very old AM2 machine and it worked. I did not try the other 2 USB or the DVD though.
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Problem solved!
Someone on another forum asked if I was using a Razer keyboard and if so, remove it.
I AM! And after changing to a generic el cheapo keyboard, Clonekilla worked! In ALL modes.
And I realized that I should've noticed that since the wall of text started just before the language and keymap screen, it cuold be the kb problem.
I know the Razer synapse 2.0 software is buggy as hell (and I didn't install it in this new PC) but I didn't know that even the physical keyboard is funky!
After working on this silly problem for a week, I'm shocked that the reason was something this silly...
Last edit: Navanod 2013-10-25
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Hi All,
There is a strange problem with running Clonezilla on my new system. I had googled extensively all the possible clues as to why its not working, as well as described the symptoms to my IT dept's folks (on a personal non-work basis of course) but with no solutions. Some suggested that its a USB driver issue, others blame the safe boot but I'm starting to think its a display issue.
Alright, here's the problem.
I'm able to boot from USB drives and CD images of Clonezilla and get to the selection page similar to the one in this picture:
http://acacha.org/mediawiki/upload/e/e1/Oscaradan_clonezilla_comuns_1.png
However, after selecting any of the modes for the various possible screen resolutions, a lot of text will scroll by but before loading into the language selection screen, the text suddenly becomes an infinite scrolling wall of text like this:
http://imgur.com/Mv0ivcX
This text can scroll forever.
I had googled various forms of the text "hid-generic 0003 can't reset device status -32" but no one seemed to have the same problem as I do. The results were mostly about keyboards and usb hubs.
In certain modes, the text will quickly deteriorate into gibberish symbols, mostly with a "^" above them.
What is most frustrating, was that intermittently, I had been able to reach the language selection screen (mostly via KMS mode), but it is frozen (cannot move selection, cannot select).
On 3 occasions so far (after a week of trying and at least 80 reboots), I had been able to actually select language and from there it worked & I was able to clone an image of the drive. On the 3rd time this happened though, some red error text about "nouveau" followed by some numbers kept appearing during selection or when keying in the name of the cloned image, but that didn't prevent the process from proceeding.
This success is entirely random apparently as rebooting without changing anything in the BIOS will result in the wall of scrolling text again.
So now I have 3 images of my system but I'm not able to clone it to a new drive because I cannot get Clonezilla to work consistently.
I've tried using amd64 and i486 versions of Clonezilla 2.1.2-43, on USB drives of 256mb, 1GB and 2GB (on both USB2.0 & 3.0 slots), as well as bootable .iso in DVD (sata2). All produced the identical wall of text.
Of the 3 times I had succeeded, they were all on the amd64 version, twice via USB and once via DVD.
The PC is new, running Windows 7 ultimate.
MB: Asus Maximus V Formula with latest BIOS
CPU: i7 3770K
Mem: Corsair vengeance 1600 4x4gb
GPU: EVGA 680GTX Classified 4GB
Since I'm able to boot from the USB & DVD & load Clonezilla mid-way, I'm quite sure my BIOS settings is correct for booting from legacy and non-UEFI sources.
I apologize if my descriptions of the problem is not in "programming speak" so to say. Please let me know what other information would be useful to help diagnose the problem and I'll do my best to provide it, although I may need some help with collecting/extracting. Eg. How can I save all that text that simply flew by after I had selected the mode? Is there a log file I can create?
Thanks alot in advance and appreciate all and any help.
Hi.
Sorry, i'm a french user.
"This success is entirely random apparently as rebooting without changing anything in the BIOS" : have you tested the RAM with memtest86+ ?
Other test with RAM : try with only 2gb and try with an different slot ..
With the USB key, have you try on an other computer ?
Hi Cool,
Thank you for replying. Your anglais is very clear :)
You suspect that the RAM are the reason?
The RAM had been slightly overclocked (1600 to 2133) and did pass memtest but I'll try at its original stock speed tonight again.
I've tried one of the USB on a very old AM2 machine and it worked. I did not try the other 2 USB or the DVD though.
Problem solved!
Someone on another forum asked if I was using a Razer keyboard and if so, remove it.
I AM! And after changing to a generic el cheapo keyboard, Clonekilla worked! In ALL modes.
And I realized that I should've noticed that since the wall of text started just before the language and keymap screen, it cuold be the kb problem.
I know the Razer synapse 2.0 software is buggy as hell (and I didn't install it in this new PC) but I didn't know that even the physical keyboard is funky!
After working on this silly problem for a week, I'm shocked that the reason was something this silly...
Last edit: Navanod 2013-10-25
wahou, crazy reason ... !
Very good for you if the problem solved :)
Thanks for sharing that.
Appreciate!
Steven.