Clonezilla Live USB no longer shows USB partitions to select for image repository

[Sadi Yumusak]

I've been using this superb tool to backup my system for a long time now.
However (I think with version 2.4. onwards?) I no longer see my USB disk (including Clonezilla Live on sdb1, and my data and system backups on sdb2) -- I can only save the image of my system to another partition on the same internal hard disk (i.e. "Step 9. Select sdb1 as image repository.." in "Clonezilla Live Doc" is no longer working as it used to).
That's why I have to use Clonezilla Live version 2.3.2-22 to avoid keeping my system backup on the same internal hard disk or copying/moving those huge backup images to my external USB disk every time.
Can someone please clarify this for me?

[Steven Shiau]

Please check this:
http://drbl.org/faq/fine-print.php?path=./2_System/120_image_repository_on_same_usb_stick.faq#120_image_repository_on_same_usb_stick.faq

Steven.

[Sadi Yumusak]

Thanks, I know this.
I already have 2 partitions on my USB HDD, and I even have the toram option enabled.

This works OK:

menuentry "Clonezilla 2.3.2-22" {
linux /clonezilla/vmlinuz ro root=UUID=5539-5611 live-media-path=/clonezilla  boot=live username=user config quiet noswap edd=on nomodeset locales=en_US.UTF-8 keyboard-layouts=tr ocs_live_run=ocs-live-general ocs_live_extra_param= ocs_live_batch=no vga=788 ip=  nosplash i915.blacklist=yes radeonhd.blacklist=yes nouveau.blacklist=yes vmwgfx.enable_fbdev=no noprompt noeject
initrd /clonezilla/initrd.img
}

This doesn't work:

menuentry "Clonezilla 2.4.5-20" {
search --set -f "/clonezilla-live-2.4.5-20-amd64.iso"
loopback loop "/clonezilla-live-2.4.5-20-amd64.iso"
linux (loop)/live/vmlinuz findiso=/clonezilla-live-2.4.5-20-amd64.iso toram=filesystem.squashfs boot=live union=overlay username=user config components noswap edd=on nomodeset nodmraid noeject noprompt locales= keyboard-layouts=tr ocs_live_run=ocs-live-general ocs_live_extra_param= ocs_live_batch=no gfxpayload=1024x768x16,1024x768 ip=frommedia nosplash i915.blacklist=yes radeonhd.blacklist=yes nouveau.blacklist=yes vmwgfx.blacklist=yes
initrd (loop)/live/initrd.img
}

[Steven Shiau]

The loopback function for grub won't work. To use loopback, iso has to be mounted. The your USB flash drive is busy. That's why it failed I believe.
Therefore, please use the 1st method.

Steven.