CloneZilla PXE Boot Without NFS

Question

I am trying to setup CloneZilla to be bootable via PXE without using NFS. I do not have NFS running on our PXE server and would like to keep it that way. However, most of the information that I have found online indicates that you need to setup NFS in order to PXE boot CloneZilla. I believe that I am pretty close in getting it to work, but am not sure where to go next. Listed below are the different PXE menu option configurations that I have used so far.

LABEL Clonezilla Live
  MENU LABEL Clonezilla Live
  KERNEL utilities/clonezilla/vmlinuz
  APPEND initrd=utilities/clonezilla/initrd.img boot=live live-config noswap nolocales edd=on nomodeset ocs_live_run="ocs-live-general" ocs_live_extra_param="" ocs_live_keymap="" ocs_live_batch="no" o$

I have also tried the following append lines, without success:

APPEND initrd=utilities/clonezilla/initrd.img boot=live union=aufs noswap noprompt vga=788 fetch=tftp://10.130.155.23/filesystem.squashfs
APPEND initrd=utilities/clonezilla/initrd.img boot=live union=aufs noswap noprompt vga=normal nomodeset nosplash fetch=tftp://10.130.155.23/filesystem.squashfs

Each of them have resulted in a no go with the following error: "Unable to find a live file system on the network". It looks like it gets to the point of trying to load the filesystem.squashfs file, hangs, and then throws the error. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

I use cobbler to PXE boot Clonezilla, so it may be a bit different from your situation. Here's my pxelinux.cfg:

kernel /images/Clonezilla/vmlinuz1
ipappend 2
append initrd=/images/Clonezilla/initrd1.img  edd=on ocs_live_run=ocs-live-general text ocs_live_keymap noprompt ocs_live_extra_param ocs_lang locale=  union=aufs hostname=jaunty boot=live ocs_live_batch=no mode_option=1024x768 nolocales fetch=http://192.168.2.1/cobbler/ks_mirror/clonezilla/images/pxeboot/filesystem.squashfs  auto

This configuration is using HTTP to transfer the file system. Also note that this is for the Debian version of Clonezilla.