Hi, I have used clonezilla in the past without problems. Clonezilla Live boots to the menu, but on selecting a menu option it crashes, often with the message can't find /sbin/init.
I had added the unzipped files to the FAT32 partition in an otherwise empty 240GB drive with a GPT partition.
Question: am I supposed to add the unzipped files to an already existing Debian Live disk?
The doc does not appear to say so (unless I missed something). It does make sense to me that, without a /sbin in the zip, that file will not be found, and I know it is essential in the handover from initrd to the real OS in most Linux versions. I am guessing the same is true here?
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I downloaded the zip for amd64 which is the right architecture for my machine.
I checked the shar 512 and sha 256 sums
In gparted created a new GPT label on my USB drive to effectively delete all files
I created a new FAT32 partition. First attempt size 500MiB, second attempt size 1024MiB
I mounted the FAT32
I unzipped the files into the mount directory
I rebooted the machine, pressing Esc for the boot menu
I booted the USB drive partition 1, identified as a UEFI boot
Clonezilla menu appears. Steps 10 and 11 repeated several times with each version of FAT partition
Selected one of the to ram options, each of which crashed. Sometimes I got a message about the missing /sbin/init - less often the screen just blanked, once I got into the busybox shell of the system on the hard drive of the computer. Last time round tried the top option, which is not a toram option.
reboot and try 10 with a different option
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Hi, I have used clonezilla in the past without problems. Clonezilla Live boots to the menu, but on selecting a menu option it crashes, often with the message can't find /sbin/init.
I had added the unzipped files to the FAT32 partition in an otherwise empty 240GB drive with a GPT partition.
Question: am I supposed to add the unzipped files to an already existing Debian Live disk?
The doc does not appear to say so (unless I missed something). It does make sense to me that, without a /sbin in the zip, that file will not be found, and I know it is essential in the handover from initrd to the real OS in most Linux versions. I am guessing the same is true here?
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I should have added that the file I downloaded was clonezilla-live-3.2.0-5-amd64.zip
Please ask if there is anything else I could have said.
Did you give testing Clonezilla live a try? i.e., 3.2.1-7 or 202502180-*:
https://clonezilla.org/downloads.php
"Question: am I supposed to add the unzipped files to an already existing Debian Live disk? " -> No, a blank vFAT file system is better.
BTW, maybe you can do a memtest? Make sure your RAM is flawless.
Steven