Clonezilla / PXE and USB-RJ45

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Clonezilla / PXE and USB-RJ45

Forum: Open Discussion

Creator: Neoclust

Created: 2019-03-14

Updated: 2019-03-29

Neoclust - 2019-03-14

Hello,

I am trying to boot on clonezilla using PXE network boot ( using squashfs from http://free.nchc.org.tw/clonezilla-live/alternative/stable/clonezilla-live-20190108-cosmic-amd64.zip ) . It works fine with the ONBOARD NIC, but if i boot with an USB-RJ45 adapter not.

with the onboard NIC, it downloads the squashFS but with the USB adapter it find the card but does not download the squashfs.

Do you have any idea why ?

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Neoclust - 2019-03-14

btw the adaptater works OK as i can see my pxelinux menu, and it sends well the vmlinuz and initrd

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Steven Shiau - 2019-03-28

This is similar to this discussion:
https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Clonezilla_server_edition/thread/de7c4f810a/
We will include USB NIC modules in Clonezilla live >= 2.6.1-20.
Then this issue should be fixed.

Steven

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Neoclust - 2019-03-29

will work with ubuntu based too ?

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Steven Shiau - 2019-03-29

Yes, definitely.

Steven

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Neoclust - 2019-03-29

ls squashfs-root/lib/modules/4.18.0-13-generic/kernel/drivers/net/usb/
asix.ko cdc_ether.ko cdc_subset.ko gl620a.ko ipheth.ko lg-vl600.ko plusb.ko rtl8150.ko sr9700.ko
ax88179_178a.ko cdc_mbim.ko ch9200.ko hso.ko kalmia.ko mcs7830.ko qmi_wwan.ko sierra_net.ko sr9800.ko
catc.ko cdc_ncm.ko cx82310_eth.ko huawei_cdc_ncm.ko kaweth.ko net1080.ko r8152.ko smsc75xx.ko usbnet.ko
cdc_eem.ko cdc-phonet.ko dm9601.ko int51x1.ko lan78xx.ko pegasus.ko rndis_host.ko smsc95xx.ko zaurus.ko

i see this, so this does not explain completly why in PXE it does not work ( if i understand correctly )

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Neoclust - 2019-03-29

ok sorry not in the initrd (

ls lib/modules/4.18.0-13-generic/kernel/net/

802 bridge ceph core dsa ieee802154 ipv4 ipv6 llc mac802154 psample sunrpc tls vmw_vsock

i understand better.

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Steven Shiau - 2019-03-29

No, you should look for the USB NIC modules in initrd.img, not in the filesystem.squashfs.

Steven

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Neoclust - 2019-03-29

i confirm that it works better now ( i did the steps from https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Clonezilla_server_edition/thread/de7c4f810a/ )

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