I use clonezilla a lot to load images onto computers or create backups of them and it was always a hassle to enter the same values into the diolog over and over again. Unfortunately the documentation is not the very best.
Anyway, with a lot of googling and trail and error i finally got a semi automatic configuration.
You have to modify 3 files for booting EFI machines as well as BIOS based ones.
EFI: /EFI/boot/grub.cfg 🔗
et prefix=/EFI/boot/
set default="0"
if loadfont $prefix/unicode.pf2; then
set gfxmode=auto
insmod efi_gop
insmod efi_uga
insmod gfxterm
terminal_output gfxterm
fi
set timeout="5"
set hidden_timeout_quiet=false
if background_image $prefix/ocswp-grub2.png; then
set color_normal=black/black
set color_highlight=magenta/black
else
set color_normal=cyan/blue
set color_highlight=white/blue
fi
menuentry "Clonezilla live, ::: Restore :::"{
search --set -f /live/vmlinuz
linux /live/vmlinuz boot=live username=user config quiet noswap edd=on nomodeset noeject locales=en_US.UTF-8 keyboard-layouts=ch ocs_live_extra_param="" ocs_prerun1="/lib/live/mount/medium/utils/mount.sh" ocs_live_batch=no ocs_live_run="ocs-sr -g auto -e1 auto -e2 -c -r -j2 -p true restoredisk ask_user ask_user" vga=791 ip= nosplash i915.blacklist=yes radeonhd.blacklist=yes nouveau.blacklist=yes vmwgfx.enable_fbdev=1
initrd /live/initrd.img
}
menuentry "Clonezilla live, ::: Backup :::"{
search --set -f /live/vmlinuz
linux /live/vmlinuz boot=live username=user config quiet noswap edd=on nomodeset noeject locales=en_US.UTF-8 keyboard-layouts=ch ocs_live_extra_param="" ocs_prerun1="/lib/live/mount/medium/utils/mount.sh" ocs_live_batch=no ocs_live_run="ocs-sr -q2 -c -j2 -z1p -i 2000 -p true savedisk ask_user ask_user" vga=791 ip= nosplash i915.blacklist=yes radeonhd.blacklist=yes nouveau.blacklist=yes vmwgfx.enable_fbdev=1
initrd /live/initrd.img
}
As you can see i preset the locales to US-english (en_US.UTF-8), but the keyboard-layouts to swiss-german (ch). Furthermore i set ocs_prerun1 with a path to a bashscript where i configure the ethernet and mount a samba share where my images are located. (I show the script later because its the same for EFI and BIOS)
BIOS: /syslinux/isolinux.cfg, /syslinux/syslinux.cfg 🔗
I have no idea why there are two identical cfg files, but i modified both in the same way and that works for me:
default vesamenu.c32
timeout 50
prompt 0
noescape 1
MENU MARGIN 5
MENU BACKGROUND ocswp.png
# Set the color for unselected menu item and timout message
MENU COLOR UNSEL 7;32;41 #c0000090 #00000000
MENU COLOR TIMEOUT_MSG 7;32;41 #c0000090 #00000000
MENU COLOR TIMEOUT 7;32;41 #c0000090 #00000000
MENU COLOR HELP 7;32;41 #c0000090 #00000000
# MENU MASTER PASSWD
say **********************************************************************
say Clonezilla, the OpenSource Clone System.
say NCHC Free Software Labs, Taiwan.
say clonezilla.org, clonezilla.nchc.org.tw
say THIS SOFTWARE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!
say **********************************************************************
# Allow client to edit the parameters
ALLOWOPTIONS 1
# simple menu title
MENU TITLE clonezilla.org, clonezilla.nchc.org.tw
label Clonezilla live, ::: Restore :::
MENU LABEL Clonezilla live, ::: Restore :::
kernel /live/vmlinuz
append initrd=/live/initrd.img boot=live username=user config quiet noswap edd=on nomodeset locales=en_US.UTF-8 keyboard-layouts=ch ocs_live_extra_param="" ocs_prerun1="/lib/live/mount/medium/utils/mount.sh" ocs_live_batch=no ocs_live_run="ocs-sr -g auto -e1 auto -e2 -c -r -j2 -p true restoredisk ask_user ask_user" ocs_live_batch=no vga=791 ip= nosplash i915.blacklist=yes radeonhd.blacklist=yes nouveau.blacklist=yes vmwgfx.enable_fbdev=1
label Clonezilla live, ::: Backup :::
MENU LABEL Clonezilla live, ::: Backup :::
kernel /live/vmlinuz
append initrd=/live/initrd.img boot=live username=user config quiet noswap edd=on nomodeset locales=en_US.UTF-8 keyboard-layouts=ch ocs_live_extra_param="" ocs_prerun1="/lib/live/mount/medium/utils/mount.sh" ocs_live_batch=no ocs_live_run="ocs-sr -q2 -c -j2 -z1p -i 2000 -p true savedisk ask_user ask_user" ocs_live_batch=no vga=791 ip= nosplash i915.blacklist=yes radeonhd.blacklist=yes nouveau.blacklist=yes vmwgfx.enable_fbdev=1
The changes are the same as for the EFI grub.cfg.
custom mount script: /utils/mount.sh 🔗
As is said before, i call a custom mount script because i wanted to automate a few things and doing that inline is just ugly as hell :-)
#!/bin/bash
# import configuration
source "/lib/live/mount/medium/config.sh"
dhclient -v eth0
addr0=$(ifconfig eth0 | grep "inet addr")
if [ "$addr0" == "" ]
then
dhclient -v eth1
fi
addr1=$(ifconfig eth1 | grep "inet addr")
if [ "$addr0" == "" ] && [ "$addr1" == "" ]
then
echo "Error: no IP received!"
read -p enter
reboot
fi
# mount samba share
mount -t cifs //$sambaserver/$sambapath /home/partimag -o user=$user,password=$password,domain=$domain
I first import a config script that is located in the root of the boot stick. Then i try to get a DHCP lease for eth0, if that fails i try the same for eth1. If none of the two interfaces get a DHCP lease, i throw an error and reboot after the user confirms by pressing ENTER (or any other key).
Last but not least, i mount the Samba server.
configuration: config.sh 🔗
And finally the config file with the parameters, that makes it easy to adjust the scripts in case the servername or password changes.
#!/bin/bash
sambaserver="hostname"
sambapath="clonezilla/images" #note, no leading slash!
user="username"
password="password"
domain="MyDomain"
And thats it, the script does everythin autmatically, except for choosing the image and the disk to restore/backup. Thats why i call it semi-automatic. In case you want to have a fully automatic script, you can simply replace the ask_user parameters in the grub.cfg files with imagename and sda for example.