OMV restore, Clonezilla and Gparted live CD

Hello,

I do not know how many of you are using H2 with OpenMediaVault (OMV), but I am and recently I had some weird issues. OMV has a backup plugin that uses either dd to create a backup image of the installation or fsarchiver. It also has the possibility to boot once into Clonezilla, Gparted or SystemRescueCD to perform a restore or more. I recently had to reinstall OMV because I had a backup that I could not restore anymore. I searched for a proper way to do a backup and I ran across a plugin that uses dd or fsarchiver.

My main issue is that if I set my H2 to boot once into Clonezilla, Gparted or SystemRescueCD I get a black screen (all done from within OMV). There is no error on screen, I even tried using a monitor instead of the TV (that is conveniently closer to my H2), but it did not work. I then tried to boot Gparted or SystemRescueCD using an USB stick that I made with the recommended tools (RUFUS and some other tools that can write an ISO to a USB stick and make the USB stick bootable). I managed to get SystemRescueCD to boot only with the latest versio or RUFUS (3.8) after about an hour or debugging why my H2 does not boot from a stick that is working on other systems (that do not boot from UEFI only). That bootable USB stick is booting from UEFI on some other systems, only H2 is stubborn enough to not boot.

Please help, I want to understand what I am doing wrong. I have a multiboot stick with several tools, ISO (Linux, Windows) that does not boot at all (I had to use an old USB stick to make it work). This multiboot UEFI capable USB stick works on other systems (again, booting from UEFI). What can I do to have it booting without so much trouble?

ryecoaaron: I did that and I was able to see the grub menu and all the software I have installed. None of them booted, I just got a black screen. I am on the latest OMV 4.x.

I only wanted to boot GParted to partition a new HDD and it turned out to be a bigger issue than I thought. I will keep on using that working USB stick with SystemRescueCD that is working now (6.0.5, I guess, because this is the latest available one that worked for me). But please try to spend some time on this too. I thought I could use the integrated tools that OMV is offering and I was surprised to find out they are not working. I can help with debugging on my H2 that can only boot UEFI.

You should add SystemRescueCD 6.0.5 as this is the version that booted on my H2. I did not test Clonezilla or Gparted latest available versions now.

If you ever do a test, you should try with a machine that only has UEFI boot, I think this is the issue. I honestly cannot explain why only that version booted on my H2. H2 does not have any other alternative in BIOS, it will always boot UEFI and only that. I hope you can replicate the issue I encountered and find a solution.