Hi all, I'm kinda stuck with the following issue;
I have a Dell 2950 with 6 450G SAS disks configured with a hw-raid5 set, which gives me a volume of ~2TB. This volume is recognized as sda during boottime (log1 below) but somehow sfdisk is not able to initialize the volume with the configured partitions (log2 & disk_config below). I understood fdisk has a >2TB volume issue, but FAI is using sfdisk here, right? Thanks for any possible solutions! log1: scsi0 : LSI Logic SAS based MegaRAID driver scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access HITACHI HUS154545VLS300 A4C2 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 scsi 0:0:1:0: Direct-Access HITACHI HUS154545VLS300 A4C2 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 scsi 0:0:2:0: Direct-Access HITACHI HUS154545VLS300 A4C2 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 scsi 0:0:3:0: Direct-Access HITACHI HUS154545VLS300 A4C2 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 scsi 0:0:4:0: Direct-Access HITACHI HUS154545VLS300 A4C2 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 scsi 0:0:5:0: Direct-Access HITACHI HUS154545VLS300 A4C2 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 scsi 0:0:32:0: Enclosure DP BACKPLANE 1.05 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 scsi 0:2:0:0: Direct-Access DELL PERC 6/i 1.21 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 3ware 9000 Storage Controller device driver for Linux v2.26.02.010. Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods sd 0:2:0:0: [sda] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16). sd 0:2:0:0: [sda] 4389601280 512-byte hardware sectors (2247476 MB) sd 0:2:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 0:2:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 1f 00 10 08 sd 0:2:0:0: [sda] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, supports DPO and FUA sd 0:2:0:0: [sda] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16). sd 0:2:0:0: [sda] 4389601280 512-byte hardware sectors (2247476 MB) sd 0:2:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 0:2:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 1f 00 10 08 sd 0:2:0:0: [sda] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, supports DPO and FUA sda: unknown partition table sd 0:2:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk log2: FAI_ACTION: install Performing FAI installation. All data may be overwritten! Calling task_install Calling task_partition Partitioning local harddisks using setup_harddisks setup_harddisks version 0.43fai Probing disks: /dev/sda Disks found: sda sfdisk: ERROR: sector 0 does not have an msdos signature /dev/sda: unrecognized partition table type No partitions found Using config file: /var/lib/fai/config/sd 0:2:0:0: [sda] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16). disk_config/CLEAsd 0:2:0:0: [sda] 4389601280 512-byte hardware sectors (2247476 MB) Mappingsd 0:2:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off disk name disk1sd 0:2:0:0: [sda] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, supports DPO and FUA Creating partition table: LC_ALL=C sfdisk -q /dev/sda < /tmp/fai/partition.sda sfdisk: ERROR: sector 0 does not have an msdos signature /dev/sda: unrecognized partition table type No partitions found sfdisk: bad input SFDISK ERROR: Disk /dev/sda: 273240 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track Old situation: Traceback: task_error task_partition task task_install task task_action task main FATAL ERROR. Installation stopped. bash: no job control in this shell r...@kj-calstore001:/# disk_config: # <type> <mountpoint> <size in mb> [mount options] [;extra options] # Don't just change this to sda/b/c etc please! disk_config disk1 primary / 1000-2000 rw,errors=remount-ro ; -c -j ext3 primary /boot 100-160 rw ; -j ext3 boot logical swap 400-500 rw ; swap logical /tmp 1000-1800 rw ; -m 0 -j ext3 logical /usr 2000-2200 rw ; -j ext3 logical /var 5000-7500 rw ; -m 5 -j ext3 logical /home 500-5400 rw ; -m 1 -j ext3 logical /opt 1000-600000 rw ; -m 1 -j xfs Thanks, Roel.
