Booting clonezilla gives blank screen
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I downloaded the current ISO image and burned to a CD.
When booting, I see (briefly) the ISOLinux banner, then nothing. I hear the drive chugging but I can't see anything. (Not even a cursor)
I have a NVIDIA 970 graphics card, which seems to be causing issues with grub2 on new things. E.g. for installing openSUSE I had to tell it to stay in text mode.
So how can I use a Clonezilla CD?
(I was using the older copy included in PartedMagic included in UBCD, but it's giving an error opening the btrfs partition when I try and use it. I figured my first step was to use a current version of Clonezilla.)
Did you try the latest testing Clonezilla live, especially the alternative testing releases, like 20150922-vivid or 20150922-wily on
http://clonezilla.org/downloads.php
?
Steven.
Adding somewhat related blank screen topic. My computer (MSI 7640 board, AMD FX8350, Radeon HD 3550 card) running clonezilla 2.4.2.61-amd has the screen go black or blank after a few seconds to a few minutes of working. No response on keyboard or mouse movements; I swapped monitor and cables, no change. Connected a PS2 keyboard - no luck. I found something in my BIOS called EuP 2013 which is a energy saver which was enabled and disabled it. No change. The only thing I did not try was another graphics card. In fact the screen turns black also on the starting screen (selecting what option to boot) if I wait a minute or 2.
After all I decided to let the process run for more than that half hour it projected, wait for no disk sound&light, hard reset the computer, reboot in windows and see if the partition was complete and good. That seemed to be the case. I have never experienced this behaviour - as both my Windows and Linux OSes on this machine would wake the screen up in case it goes black.
So it's either clonezilla activating it; or my graphics card or a BIOS action; but while CZ is still working, nothing is getting the screen lit up again.
This stuff is really awkward. I havent tested the alternative releases (what will they bring??) and I am pretty much fed up with it, so no more time to be spent on it, but just to document it.
Last edit: Frederik Boersma 2015-11-03
This is an issue about Linux kernel supporting hardware. Maybe you can give the testing Clonezilla live >= 2.4.2-66 a try:
http://clonezilla.org/downloads.php
it comes with newer Linux kernel so the hardware support might be better.
Steven.