Clonezilla / Discussion / Help: ocs_repository not working via grub

Useing clonezilla version stable - 2.6.3-7
I have 2 methods of pxeboot for it
One I use pxelinux

label Clonezilla-live 2019-09-03 x64
  menu label Clonezilla Live 2019-09-03 stable x64 fast
  kernel cz190903.x64/live/vmlinuz
  append initrd=cz190903.x64/live/initrd.img vga=788 video=800x600 vmwgfx.enable_fbdev=1 boot=live union=overlay username=user hostname=clonezilla ocs_live_run="ocs-live-general" ocs_live_extra_param="" ocs_live_batch="no" locales=en_US.UTF-8 keyboard-layouts=NONE toram=filesystem.squashfs fetch=http://tftp/tftp/cz190903.x64/live/filesystem.squashfs ocs_repository="smb://domain;clonezilla:password@smb/clonezilla/"

The other is grub with the config

menuentry "Clonezilla-live 2019-09-03 x64"{
  linux /cz190903.x64/live/vmlinuz boot=live union=overlay username=user hostname=clonezilla ocs_live_run="ocs-live-general" ocs_live_extra_param="" ocs_live_batch="no" locales=en_US.UTF-8 keyboard-layouts=NONE toram=filesystem.squashfs fetch=http://tftp/tftp/cz190903.x64/live/filesystem.squashfs ocs_repository="smb://domain;clonezilla:password@smb/clonezilla/"
  initrd /cz190903.x64/live/initrd.img
}

When I boot via pxelinux it mounts /home/partimag.
When I boot using UEFI grub it does not.

Last edit: jeff.sadowski 2019-10-18

jeff.sadowski - 2019-10-18

I tried working around this via

ocs_prerun="mount //smb/clonezilla /home/partimag -o username=clonezilla,domain=domain,password=password"

but this causes it to lockup on booting via grub
It locks up running the command on
2.6.3-7
and
20191016-eoan

I can run other commands via ocs_prerun with no problems but this particular mount command causes it to freeze up.

Last edit: jeff.sadowski 2019-10-18
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Steven Shiau - 2019-10-19

Try to use the password which won't confuse the parsing program, especially do not use some special characters as part of your password.

Steven

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jeff.sadowski - 2019-10-19

I'll even give the password I tried.
Password:
Cl0nezilla
but is still ignores the option in EFI mode.

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Steven Shiau - 2019-10-19

So what's the results when you run:
cat /proc/cmdline

Steven

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jeff.sadowski - 2019-10-19

Can't wait to try that Monday :-) I wonder of the order matters.

Last edit: jeff.sadowski 2019-10-19

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Steven Shiau - 2019-10-20

Basically Clonezilla read the content of /proc/cmdline, parse it, then run it. If the /proc/cmdline is the same for both booting from syslinux and grub, then there is no reason that Clonezilla will run it differently. Hence we can just check /proc/cmdline to realize what happened there.

Steven

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jeff.sadowski - 2019-10-21

root@clonezilla:~# cat /proc/cmdline
BOOT_IMAGE=/cz191016.x64/live/vmlinuz boot=live union=overlay username=user hostname=clonezilla ocs_live_run=ocs-live-general ocs_live_extra_param= ocs_live_batch=no locales=en_US.UTF-8 keyboard-layouts=NONE toram=filesystem.squashfs fetch=http://tftp/tftp/cz191016.x64/live/filesystem.squashfs ocs_repository=smb://mydomain;clonezilla:Cl0nezilla@smb/clonezilla/

mydomain is my domain
clonezilla is the username
Cl0nezilla is the password
smb is my samba server
and
clonezilla is a share on it

these credetials work just fine if I enter them manually.

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jeff.sadowski - 2019-10-21

I do the exact same ocs_repository for a legacy pxe boot and it works flawlessly. Something about it booting UEFI pxe it seems to ignore ocs_repository

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jeff.sadowski - 2019-10-21

I do the exact same ocs_repository for a legacy pxe boot and it works flawlessly. Something about it booting UEFI pxe it seems to ignore ocs_repository

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jeff.sadowski - 2019-10-21

I found a work around.
I created a script mount.sh

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#!/bin/bash mount //smb/clonezilla /home/partimag -o username=clonezilla,domain=mydomain,password=Cl0nezilla

then I was able to use ocs_prerun like so

ocs_prerun="wget http://tftp/tftp/mount.sh -P /root;bash /root/mount.sh"

This works.
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Steven Shiau - 2019-10-23

Thanks. I confirmed this issue, and it was fixed in the git repository. The next testing Clonezilla live will contain the fixed codes.

Steven

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Steven Shiau - 2019-10-24

This issue is fixed in Clonezilla live 2.6.4-10 or 20191024-*:
https://clonezilla.org/downloads.php

Please give it a try and let us know the results. Thanks.

Steven

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jeff.sadowski - 2019-10-24

Awesome thanks. But I really like my work around. I have it change the root password allow root login via ssh and start the ssh service then it reports the ip to a file so I can ssh to it.

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Steven Shiau - 2019-10-24

Definitely! Script will be much more flexible compared with the parameter ocs_repository.

Steven

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ptrj - 2020-12-11

Hi,

i have problem with ocs_repository to put domain in to login for smb share for group.cfg. In documentation is syntax smb://domain;login:password@ip/share/path and it doesn't work.
I have hack this like smb://login:password,domain=my_domain@IP/share/
Maybe it helps

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- jeff.sadowski - 2020-12-11
  
  Thank you for this but it was something that Steven did with a newer version that had fixed it. Everything has been working flawless "on this aspect" for a long time. :-) I am very pleased with it. I haven't even needed my own script in such a long time that I had even taken that out.
  
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Steven Shiau - 2020-12-14

@ptrj,
As jeff.sadowski mentioned, please give the latest Clonezilla live a try, e.g., 2.7.0-10 or 20201102-groovy:
https://clonezilla.org/downloads.php
and let us know the results.

@ jeff.sadowski,
Thanks for your feedback. It's nice to know you enjoy this feature of Clonezilla live.

Steven

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Karlhein Reimann - 2021-01-21

I tried clonezilla-live-2.7.0-10-amd64 and there I have the same problem than ptrj (booting in uefi and using grub.cfg) and his solution also works here.

And thank you for Clonezilla live. It's an awesome software.

Karl

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