I earlier wrote: > However fai still does not write the disk_var file. > It is strange. class/S03hwdetect.source does not appear to call > disk_info and so it never writes /tmp/fai/disk_var.sh . > Now I appear to have this problem with an IDE-only unit. > Hmmm, /proc/partitions was empty when S03hwdetect.source ran. > But setup_harddisks found disk info in /proc/partitions. > Apparently this IDE bus or this disk does not activate > unless polled. I added "sfdisk -g -q" to the top of > S03hwdetect.source, and this filled out /proc/partitions. > Maybe this will work with the SCSI unit, too.
This ended up being a bad disk. Anyone not fortunate to ride on a grant should add "-c" to $mke2fs_options in setup_harddisks. ;-) --mark--
