Clonezilla either hangs or does not have ext4 support
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#192 Clonezilla either hangs or does not have ext4 support
Hello, to whom it may concern. I have downloaded the clonezilla .zip for version 3.1.1-27-amd64 I then unzipped these files and placed them into a 1Gb FAT partition on my Linux machine. I then boot into the clonezilla partition and enter a shell. Inside of this shell I attempt to mount a partition (/dev/nvme3n1p3) which is just a storage partition that is formatted in ext4. However I receive an error stating that the partition type 'ext4' is unsupported.
I have also noticed that during the boot into clonezilla, the autofs4 module is missing from the kernel. I believe that this may be part of the issue.
The reason that I need to use an older version of clonezilla is because my SOM does not play well with any linux kernel passed 6.8 , Now the 20250303 version of clonezilla (i beleive that is 3.2.1-9) works great, however it hangs on "saving os info" after taking a backup image. The image is taken successfully, but the system will not allow me to reboot. I have to do a hard power cycle to boot back to my main OS.
I have most of this scripted, and can share the custom menu entry that I created for clonezilla to run unsupervised.
menuentry "$MENU_NAME" {
search --set -f /live/vmlinuz
\$linux_cmd /live/vmlinuz boot=live union=overlay username=user config components quiet noswap edd=on nomodeset enforcing=0 noprompt ocs_prerun="mount /dev/nvme3n1p3 /mnt" ocs_prerun1="mount --bind /mnt/images /home/partimag/" ocs_live_run="ocs-sr -q2 -c -j2 -z1p -i 4096 -p true -batch -p reboot savedisk $IMAGE_NAME /dev/sda2" ocs_live_extra_param="-y" keyboard-layouts="en" ocs_live_batch="yes" locales=en_US.UTF-8 vga=788 ip= nosplash net.ifnames=0 splash i915.blacklist=yes radeonhd.blacklist=yes nouveau.blacklist=yes vmwgfx.enable_fbdev=1 use_dev_list_cache="no"
\$initrd_cmd /live/initrd.img
}
This script essentially takes an 'image name' and creates the above command to automatically save a partition with the given name to a storage partition that can be restored later.
I am more then Ok solving either one of these issues. Either some way for me to get ext4 support into the 3.1.1-27 kernel. Or a way for me to disable the concept of saving OS info after a backup image has been taken. ( I would prefer the method of not saving the OS info because I do not fully understand the necessity of this). The image is successfully taken and I can restore back to it even after i do a hard reboot to get out of the clonezilla partition.
I have solved the issue. The issue was the difference between the debian and ubuntu builds. I was able to swap over to the Jammy Clonezilla build, and all of a sudden all the issues went away. The Ubuntu build includes support for the firmware on my board and includes the drivers I needed.
OK, great. Thanks for sharing that.