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I mean to boot clonezilla from HD. I find official information confusing/incomplete.

First it explains how to boot from files obtained by decompressing clonezilla-live-x.x.x-x-amd64.zip (current stable version is 2.8.1-12).

Then it states "from Clonezilla live >= 2.6.2-15, you can use only the Clonezilal live iso file in grub2." So I wonder:

  1. If that is actually true, what is the use of clonezilla-live-x.x.x-x-amd64.zip for later versions?
  2. Can anyone confirm if the zip-method for >= 2.6.2-15 does not work?

Then it shows the grub2 menu entry for iso booting

menuentry "clonezilla-live" {
    ISO="/clonezilla-live-2.7.2-39-amd64.iso"
    search --set -f $ISO
    loopback loop $ISO
    linux (loop)/live/vmlinuz boot=live union=overlay username=user config components quiet noswap edd=on nomodeset locales= keyboard-layouts= ocs_live_run="ocs-live-general" ocs_live_extra_param="" ocs_live_batch="no" vga=791 ip= net.ifnames=0 splash i915.blacklist=yes radeonhd.blacklist=yes nouveau.blacklist=yes vmwgfx.enable_fbdev=1 findiso=$ISO
    initrd (loop)/live/initrd.img
}
  1. How will grub2 be able to tell in which partition to look for the iso image? Or, how will I know which is the correct partition to place the iso image? It doesn't have a line like set root=(hd0,4). This shows a very similar entry, but adding a partition. Same here. But this does not.

Related:

  1. Boot Clonezilla ISO from GRUB2 Menu
  2. Adding Clonezilla to GRUB boot menu
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You'll find you answer in this post. It's about getting a recovery partition to work with a new grub menu entry. The solution I found to do it, was Clonezilla and I was able to make it run on this drive configuration:

nvme0n1                259:0    0 119.2G  0 disk   
├─nvme0n1p1            259:1    0  26.1G  0 part                recovery (with Clonezilla)
├─nvme0n1p2            259:2    0  87.9G  0 part   /            lubuntu system drive
└─nvme0n1p3            259:3    0   5.3G  0 part   /boot/efi    efi-boot

I save my images from nvme0n1p2 on my raid set.