I've been using SystemImager off and on for over 5 years and I know this used to work, at least before had upgraded awhile back to version 3.7.4 and am not sure if I'd tried it since on this particular architecture - this is a dual-socket, dual core AMD . Anyhow, just to be safer, I just upgraded again to 3.8.4, but it too is giving me problems so I'm wondering if it's something I've since forgotten how to use it as it has been a long time.
The bottom line is my installation script gets all way to the point in which it tries to create the disk structure and the very first call to parted to print the existing partition structure fails with "Could not stats device /dev/sda, though it still goes on to run the dd command and zero the boot record which didn't generate any errors. But then the command 'blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sda' fails with "inappropriate ioctl for device". but it still continues to run [are we having an error handling problem here in the script?] and when the parted command to create the partition fails with "the location 100 is outside of the device /dev/sda..." it finally aborts. At that point I went in manually and tried executing the same commands and here's what I found. parted -s -- /dev/sda did NOT give me an error, but it said the disk geometry is "0kB - 0kB", which would certainly say why it couldn't create the partition later on and "blockdev -rereadpt" failed the same way as in the master install script. I know there is a valid disk structure here because it was happily running rhel4/u4 before I tried to image it. I also tried this on a second, identically configured system and it failed in exactly the same way! so I'm sure something must be misconfigured somewhere but I have no idea where. I also suspect I'm not the first to see this particular problem either and te solution is well know, at least by someone. -mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ sisuite-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
