Hey, Because of problems like this and a few others, I always wipe the disks before partition runs using a hook...
Cheers, Andrew On Sat, 2019-01-05 at 12:15 +0100, Christian Meyer wrote: > Hello there, > > this mail is just for the archive. It's about my second problem with > setup_storage, but that has been my fault (misconfiguration). Perhaps > it's a bug in setup-storage, too, but it can be worked around easily. > > I had problems with disk_config and a virtual disk in a virtual > machine. > > Using a valid configuration (no problems for real hardware), I got: > ... > Using config file: /var/lib/fai/config/disk_config/DEFAULT > Executing: wipefs -a /dev/vda1 > (STDERR) wipefs: error: /dev/vda1: probing initialization failed: > File > or directory not found. > Command had non-zero exit code > > Error in task partition. Code 710 > > > Problem was that I previously formated the virtual disk with a > filesystem (ext4) from KVM host. > Because of this it wasn't detected as a drive and so no new MBR could > be created. > > I found out / solved it using cfdisk in the virtual machine. > cfdisk warned me that the device has an "ext4 signature" and that it > will be destroyed when continuing. > So i did it and with next reboot FAI installed without an error. > > Christian > -- Andrew Ruthven, Wellington, New Zealand [email protected] | linux.conf.au 2019, Christchurch, NZ Catalyst Cloud: | https://lca2019.linux.org.au/ https://catalystcloud.nz |
