Hi all...
OK, so I thought I'd better backup my OMV system drive after I saw that some updates were available.
Normally, I use System-->Backup-->System Backup and rsync the OS to a folder on my RAID 1 mirror.
Today, I thought I would try the Clonezilla option.
So, I clicked the Install button and the installation window shows that it was trying to download http://downloads.sourceforge.n…ive-2.3.1-18-i686-pae.iso but failed - I cannot recall the error exactly, but essentially OMV could not resolve the URL (not sure why - I can download that file on another laptop, so perhaps the sourceforge mirror redirection failed..???)
Anyway, I am now in the position where clicking the Install button again just gives me:
Generating grub.cfg ...
cat: /boot/grub/video.lst: No such file or directory
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-amd64
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-4-amd64
done
Done...
If I now click on the Clonezilla button to set grub to boot from the (missing) ISO, then I get this:
Configuring grub to boot once from Clonezilla iso... 2
Generating grub.cfg ...
cat: /boot/grub/video.lst: No such file or directory
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-amd64
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-4-amd64
done
Done...
But, when rebooting the Clonezilla option (which does appear in the Grub menu) does not work - the error is:
It then returns to the grub menu with no other boot selection selected (this NAS runs headless, but I do have an IPMI, so I can see the video...)
So.
I suspect that the "Install" button has registered a "success" flag somewhere even though the ISO has not downloaded.
Firstly, how do I get this to work
I can see that /boot has a 0 byte clonezilla ISO file there... I presume that overwriting it with the good version I downloaded on a laptop would cure this?
As a future feature, it might be nice to have an "uninstall" feature to remove that ISO and / or perhaps use the same approach as the Parted Magic option: point to a .ISO elsewhere, because later versions of CloneZilla are available now and the original fault might be due to a mirror removing that "old" version (this is not known, it is just a guess as to why the original download failed).
(On that point, if I just copy the latest .ISO to /boot, will the "Install" button work that same??
Secondly, after booting to clonezilla failed, is there a way in grub to set the normal OMV boot option? Then, if it all failed, a headless install would reboot normally.
Thanks!