Hi! [...] > > As disk-config, we are using: > disk_config disk1 > primary /boot/ 10-100 ; boot > primary - preserve2 > logical / 9000-14000 rw,errors=remount-ro ; -j ext3 > logical swap 400-600 rw > logical - preserve7 > > >From that, the following partition.hda - file is created: > > unit: sectors > > /dev/hda1 : start= 63, size= 79569, Id= 83, bootable > /dev/hda2 : start= 80325, size= 20482875, Id= c > /dev/hda3 : start= 20563200, size= 57560895, Id= 5 > /dev/hda4 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0 > /dev/hda5 : start= 20563263, size= 20635713, Id= 83 > /dev/hda6 : start= 41199039, size= 907137, Id= 82 > /dev/hda7 : start= 42106428, size= 36017667, Id= c > > which looks quite reasonable - except may bo for the partition /dev/hda4? > Hmm, yes. I don't know whether this is a bug in setup_harddisks or some problem with your prior partitioning. To rule out the former, could you try adding another primary partition (maybe as small as 16MB, just for the sake of debugging this? It shouldn't affect the 7th partition).
> > But setup_harddisks seems to have a problem with that: > > Creating partition table: LC_ALL=C sfdisk -q /dev/hda < > /tmp/fai/partition.hda > Warning: The partition table looks like it was made > for C/H/S=*/255/63 (instead of 77504/16/63). > For this listing I'll assume that geometry. > [...] Well, this might be the other possible cause: sfdisk might be confused about the geometry; usually, this requires adding the --force option to sfdisk (by adding export sfdisk="--force" to an appropriate .var file in class/). HTH, Michael
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