#430 "Box" is an unknown partition device. Program terminated!.

2025-05-14T21:25:06.317000Z

Hi,

Encountered the same bug (clonezilla 3.2.1-28, .zip, extracted, booted to RAM). For my setup please note that I opened LUKS drive manually (/dev/mapper/home and mounted pendrive at /home/partimag). It fails to prepare menu to select partitions.

The input device [Box] does NOT exist in this machine!
We will not save this device [Box]!
Press enter to continuer!

The input device [options:] does NOT exist in this machine!
...

It looks like something is not properly escaped in shell script or something...

Anyway, here is all info you requested.

/proc/partitions

major minor #blocks name

8 0 500107608 sda
8 1 102400 sda1
8 2 16384 sda2
8 3 157162300 sda3
8 4 531456 sda4
8 5 52428711 sda5
8 6 283115520 sda6
11 0 1048575 sr0
7 0 399644 loop0
253 0 283099136 dm-0
8 16 15663104 sdb
8 17 15662080 sdb1

lsblk

NAME     MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE  MOUNTPOINTS
loop0      7:0    0 390.3M  1 loop  /run/live/rootfs/filesystem.squashfs
sda        8:0    0 476.9G  0 disk  
├─sda1     8:1    0   100M  0 part  
├─sda2     8:2    0    16M  0 part  
├─sda3     8:3    0 149.9G  0 part  
├─sda4     8:4    0   519M  0 part  
├─sda5     8:5    0    50G  0 part  
└─sda6     8:6    0   270G  0 part  
     └─home 253:0    0   270G  0 crypt 
sdb        8:16   1  14.9G  0 disk  
└─sdb1     8:17   1  14.9G  0 part  /home/partimag
sr0       11:0    1  1024M  0 rom

blkid

/dev/loop0: BLOCK_SIZE="1048576" TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/sda1: UUID="FC96-B6F9" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat" PARTLABEL="EFI system partition" PARTUUID="5e617a68-5ca6-4ad4-a17d-596514b0c303"
/dev/sda3: LABEL="DESKTOP-JLT89QO C: 26.10.2021" UUID="5d0db371-35b0-46d8-b8a8-f25a519a5809" TYPE="BitLocker" PARTLABEL="Basic data partition" PARTUUID="2f14a2a8-5e11-4ce2-b628-5e15772e7c30"
/dev/sda4: BLOCK_SIZE="512" UUID="0C447BBD447BA7DA" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="27510937-54d4-4993-a9cd-ce39b59f6e02"
/dev/sda5: UUID="f8dbb45b-a1f3-46c5-8b44-9edef9fed492" UUID_SUB="d8b6943b-cbc4-4236-9162-b3db2283a5b3" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="btrfs" PARTLABEL="LINUXROOT" PARTUUID="6ffb287f-5321-4f4c-8ba2-50ddc2cc4d7c"
/dev/sda6: UUID="88905eae-34b3-4d59-b6c4-635efe27f8ce" TYPE="crypto_LUKS" PARTLABEL="Linux filesystem" PARTUUID="3b8fdbcf-7435-4998-8c81-6c2724e37b4c"
/dev/sdb1: LABEL_FATBOOT="PATRIOT" LABEL="PATRIOT" UUID="5978-6832" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="eb8711d9-01"
/dev/mapper/home: UUID="f776b987-9cd4-4d3c-8950-e54030613493" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda2: PARTLABEL="Microsoft reserved partition" PARTUUID="3878ddeb-864f-43f4-b4a7-a0c93efbb195"

mount

sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=3995524k,nr_inodes=998881,mode=755,inode64)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=600,ptmxmode=000)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=804100k,mode=755,inode64)
efivarfs on /sys/firmware/efi/efivars type efivarfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
tmpfs on /run/live/medium type tmpfs (ro,relatime,size=501836k,inode64)
/dev/loop0 on /run/live/rootfs/filesystem.squashfs type squashfs (ro,noatime,errors=continue)
tmpfs on /run/live/overlay type tmpfs (rw,noatime,mode=755,inode64)
overlay on / type overlay (rw,noatime,lowerdir=/run/live/rootfs/filesystem.squashfs/,upperdir=/run/live/overlay/rw,workdir=/run/live/overlay/work,redirect_dir=on,uuid=on)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,inode64)
cgroup2 on /sys/fs/cgroup type cgroup2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,nsdelegate,memory_recursiveprot)
pstore on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
bpf on /sys/fs/bpf type bpf (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,mode=700)
systemd-1 on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=41,pgrp=1,timeout=0,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct,pipe_ino=4116)
mqueue on /dev/mqueue type mqueue (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
hugetlbfs on /dev/hugepages type hugetlbfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,pagesize=2M)
tracefs on /sys/kernel/tracing type tracefs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
tmpfs on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=5120k,inode64)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
tmpfs on /run/credentials/systemd-journald.service type tmpfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,nosymfollow,size=1024k,nr_inodes=1024,mode=700,inode64,noswap)
configfs on /sys/kernel/config type configfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,inode64)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
sunrpc on /run/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw,relatime)
tmpfs on /run/user/1000 type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=804100k,nr_inodes=201025,mode=700,uid=1000,gid=1000,inode64)
tmpfs on /run/credentials/getty@tty6.service type tmpfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,nosymfollow,size=1024k,nr_inodes=1024,mode=700,inode64,noswap)
/dev/sdb1 on /home/partimag type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro)
tmpfs on /run/credentials/getty@tty1.service type tmpfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,nosymfollow,size=1024k,nr_inodes=1024,mode=700,inode64,noswap)

#430 "Box" is an unknown partition device. Program terminated!.

2025-05-09T00:04:29.856000Z

As discussed in https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/bugs/429/:
Please boot Clonezilla live 3.2.1-28, and enter command line prompt, run:
1. sudo -i
2. cat /proc/partitions
3. lsblk
4. blkid
5. mount
Please post the results of 2-5. Thanks.

"Box" is an unknown partition device. Program terminated!.

2025-05-07T10:29:38.676000Z

This may be related to #429 which I found through search engines.

When booting with the latest version 3.2.1-28 in the default mode (not to RAM etc), I receive the error specified in the title when the local device that shall mount to /home/partimag is to be selected.

The hardware running underneath is an older Asus Motherboard "X99-E WS/USB 3.1" running BIOS version 4001. I had tried different boot options (legacy, UEFI in win-mode or "other OS") but they all seem to yield the same result.

The system has 4 storage devices with a total of 7 partitions, on of them being a RAID plus the iso9660 (/dev/sdi).
right when the dialogue would normally list the selection of mountable partitions, there are no entries listed in the console menu, the descriptive text "Now we need to mount a device as /home/partimag [...]" is missing and the error appears:
"Box" is an unknown partition device. Program terminated!.

Using an older clonezilla version (clonezilla-live-3.1.2-9-amd64), this issue does not occur and I can perform the intended operations accordingly.

Looking at the suggestions from #429, I learned that a copy of a screen session listing the output of "bash -x clonezilla" was requested so I saved a working one from v3.1.2-9 as well as the failing one from v3.2.1-28 and supply it attached to this report.

Any further ideas how I could help to debug this?

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#430 "Box" is an unknown partition device. Program terminated!.

#430 "Box" is an unknown partition device. Program terminated!.

"Box" is an unknown partition device. Program terminated!.