วันพฤหัสบดี, สิงหาคม 18, 2554

Clonezilla problem: Clonzilla DVD boot media did not mount from DVD itself

Clonezilla problem: Clonzilla DVD boot media did not mount from DVD itself 
(always mount Flashdrive if there're Clonezilla boot media in both Flashdrive & CDROM)

    I have to remotely do Clonezilla imaging & restoration via iLO. There's no one standby to put in/put out the media from the server for me.

The situation was like this:

 1. have Clonezilla boot media in a Flashdrive, plugged in for making&keeping a clonezilla image.
2. have Clonzilla DVD boot media in a drive. There's a image which made by other and want to restore at this machine.


  • Reboot the machine 
  • Select to boot from DVD-ROM
  • It's booted
  • Select the default, 1st option
  • Clonezilla mount /home/partimag from a Flashdrive instead of a DVD.
How to solve:
  • When at Clonezilla boot option screen select to load Clonezilla to RAM
  • It's only load the program into a ramdisk.
  • then manually mount DVD-ROM to be /home/partimag
  • first; sudo -s to became root 
  • mount a dvd drive
    # mkdir -p /media/cdrom
    # mount /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom 
  • /home/partimag which Clonezilla will use to find their image files will be a symbolic link to /live/image//home/partimag (which is currently is a ram disk)
  • delete it
    # rm /home/partimag
  • create a new symbolic link point to mounted DVD disc instead
    # ln -s /media/cdrom/home/partimag /home/partimag
  • Done! now execute the Clonezilla program
    # clonezilla
  • When it ask the repository of images choose skip (the current /home/partimag)

reference:
Got an idea from
http://asecurepc.com/Ubuntu%20Tutorials/Clonezilla.html