I) If I run LiLi on the original clonezilla-live-2.4.2-61-amd64.zip file (178,403,937 bytes) then the USB flash drive is good for booting and Clonezilla menu screens come up and Clonezilla works fine.
II) But if I unzip clonezilla-live-2.4.2-61-amd64.zip onto a Unix box running Fedora 21 in an Oracle VirtualBox and then re-zip it back, Clonezilla cannot boot up from the USB flash drive and displays the "grub>" prompt. Here are the details.
1) sftp clonezilla-live-2.4.2-61-amd64.zip to /tmp of a Fedora 21 virtual machine inside the Oracle VirtualBox
2) cd /workdir
3) unzip /tmp/clonezilla-live-2.4.2-61-amd64.zip
4) Do NOT make any changes at all (or some minor changes to ./syslinux/syslinux.cfg)
5) cd /
6) zip -r /clonezilla-live-2.4.2-61-amd64.zip /workdir
7) sftp /clonezilla-live-2.4.2-61-amd64.zip to Windows 8.1 laptop
8) Run Lili on the new clonezilla-live-2.4.2-61-amd64.zip file to create USB bootable clonezilla-live-2.4.2-61-amd64.zip
9) Boot from USB flash drive and got the "grub>" prompt instead of the usual Clonezilla menu scren
I tried to run chroot inside and outside of /workdir, but got the error
chroot: failed to run command ‘/bin/bash’: No such file or directory
because it is not under /workdir
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Hi,
Could someone please point out how to fix this weird issue with creating bootable USB flash drive for clonezilla-live-2.4.2-61-amd64.zip?
I am using Linux Live USB Creator (LiLi) from http://www.linuxliveusb.com/help/guide/using-lili running on Windows 8.1.
I) If I run LiLi on the original clonezilla-live-2.4.2-61-amd64.zip file (178,403,937 bytes) then the USB flash drive is good for booting and Clonezilla menu screens come up and Clonezilla works fine.
II) But if I unzip clonezilla-live-2.4.2-61-amd64.zip onto a Unix box running Fedora 21 in an Oracle VirtualBox and then re-zip it back, Clonezilla cannot boot up from the USB flash drive and displays the "grub>" prompt. Here are the details.
1) sftp clonezilla-live-2.4.2-61-amd64.zip to /tmp of a Fedora 21 virtual machine inside the Oracle VirtualBox
2) cd /workdir
3) unzip /tmp/clonezilla-live-2.4.2-61-amd64.zip
4) Do NOT make any changes at all (or some minor changes to ./syslinux/syslinux.cfg)
5) cd /
6) zip -r /clonezilla-live-2.4.2-61-amd64.zip /workdir
7) sftp /clonezilla-live-2.4.2-61-amd64.zip to Windows 8.1 laptop
8) Run Lili on the new clonezilla-live-2.4.2-61-amd64.zip file to create USB bootable clonezilla-live-2.4.2-61-amd64.zip
9) Boot from USB flash drive and got the "grub>" prompt instead of the usual Clonezilla menu scren
I tried to run chroot inside and outside of /workdir, but got the error
chroot: failed to run command ‘/bin/bash’: No such file or directory
because it is not under /workdir
Please follow
http://clonezilla.org/liveusb.php
to create the live USB drive for Clonezilla live.
If you want to remaster the file, you can follow this:
http://drbl.org/faq/fine-print.php?path=./2_System/81_add_prog_in_filesystem-squashfs.faq#81_add_prog_in_filesystem-squashfs.faq
Make sure you include the file ".disk/info" in your zip file. It's important for uEFI booting, and it's the grub boot loader which takes care of it.
Steven.