Clonezilla: Waiting for ethernet cards up - since menus 2.0.87

[LenryNmQ]

[X]: This bug persists when memory is increased beyond 8GB.

Describe the bug
Clonezilla boot stuck at "Waiting for ethernet cards up... If this fails...". It worked before, now it stuck on every machine I tried, even on ones that worked before.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Download the latest clonezilla debian or ubuntu stable and try to boot it

Expected behavior
It should boot

Screenshots

This is a Lenovo T480. It could boot Clonezilla before.

Additional context

[gesa60]

I have the same problem. Other OSs (at least those I've tried) boot from netboot.xyz normally as before.
Please give a feedback on this strange behaviour. Tx

[Gilibenzio]

Yeah, having the same issue here...

[antonym]

Confirmed on Debian and Ubuntu image seems to fail out as well.

[gesnaud]

Hi there!

I confirm also! I tried the version embedded with netboot and also latest Clonezilla version... strange 🤔

[zezretro]

I have the same issue

[zezretro]

I got around this by rolling back to menu 2.0.86, now Clonezilla boots again

[LenryNmQ]

How do I roll back?

[zezretro]

I am using the docker compose image: ghcr.io/netbootxyz/netbootxyz which give 2.0.86 by default

I just blew away my config and rebuilt it. Admittedly not an option for everyone

[antonym]

I'd also suggest trying the Clonezilla releases directly and see if you experience the same behaviors.

[gesa60]

I confirm that same Clonezilla release (and others), directly booted, doesn't have same buggy behaviour.

[ffidelis]

Hi team, I've checked both menus package and got the differences between the released versions 2.0.87 from 2.0.86.
Basically, the clonezilla.ipxe in the 2.0.86 has a different previous debian-squash release, which worked like a charm for me in my laptop or PC successfully booting the clonezilla at /debian-squash/releases/download/3.2.0-5-5641363c/

The left is 2.0.86 and the right is the 2.0.87:

After downloaded the following previous menus file, I just extracted the clonezilla.ipxe file and rebooted my machine again.

- https://github.com/netbootxyz/netboot.xyz/releases/download/2.0.86/menus.tar.gz

My netbootxyz is still running with the 2.0.87 but with previous clonezilla.ipxe version:

Hopefully this helps and in the next menus version release everything comes fixed.
Cheers!

[ffidelis]

Just an update, the new release 2.0.86 looks fine. The menus.tar.gz is updated and the stable entries for CloneZilla are the ones that are working (3.2.0-5-5641363c):

https://github.com/netbootxyz/netboot.xyz/releases/download/2.0.86/menus.tar.gz

┌─ 🐧fidelis@sbrubles:/tmp
└─■ cat clonezilla.ipxe
#!ipxe

goto ${menu} ||

:live_menu
set os_arch ${arch}
iseq ${os_arch} x86_64 && set os_arch amd64 ||
iseq ${os_arch} i386 && set os_arch i686 ||
set os Clonezilla
menu ${os}
item --gap ${os} Versions
item debian ${space} ${os} Debian Based
iseq ${os_arch} amd64 && item ubuntu ${space} ${os} Ubuntu Based ||
choose live_version || goto live_exit
menu ${os} ${live_version} - ${os_arch}
item --gap ${os} Flavors
goto ${live_version}

:debian
iseq ${os_arch} i686 && item /debian-squash/releases/download/3.2.0-5-ef1ff756/ ${space} Clonezilla 3.2.0-5 Stable ||
iseq ${os_arch} amd64 && item /debian-squash/releases/download/3.2.0-5-5641363c/ ${space} Clonezilla 3.2.0-5 Stable ||
iseq ${os_arch} amd64 && item /debian-squash/releases/download/3.2.1-9-9e73bfe5/ ${space} Clonezilla 3.2.1-9 Testing ||
iseq ${os_arch} i686 && item /debian-squash/releases/download/3.2.0-3-d1702a7a/ ${space} Clonezilla 3.2.0-3 Testing ||
choose path || goto live_menu
goto clonezilla-boot

:ubuntu
iseq ${os_arch} amd64 && item /ubuntu-squash/releases/download/20250303-oracular-48403403/ ${space} Clonezilla 20250303-Oracular Stable ||
iseq ${os_arch} amd64 && item /ubuntu-squash/releases/download/20250303-plucky-c67d897c/ ${space} Clonezilla 20250303-Plucky Testing ||
choose path || goto live_menu
goto clonezilla-boot

:clonezilla-boot
imgfree
set url ${live_endpoint}${path}
kernel ${url}vmlinuz boot=live username=user union=overlay config components noswap edd=on nomodeset ocs_live_run="ocs-live-general" ocs_live_batch=no net.ifnames=0 nosplash noprompt fetch=${url}filesystem.squashfs initrd=initrd.magic ${cmdline}
initrd ${url}initrd
boot

:live_exit
clear menu
exit 0

[LenryNmQ]

It still doesn't work for me