Re: VCL - xCAT- BladeCenter - Windows 7 - Partimage - Restore
I think it may be easiest to recreate your Windows base image using non-UEFI partitions. Although I didn't seem to have trouble loading the image, I did have difficulties getting xCAT to boot to the Windows partition after it was loaded. The problem I encountered was that the Windows installer changed the boot order for the blade in the BIOS. It replaced Local Disk with something like Windows Boot Partition. The image would not boot when it was loaded on other blades which still had Local Disk in the boot order. I disabled the UEFI extension in the BIOS, set the boot order back to Local Disk, and reinstalled Windows 7. This caused the Windows installer to create normal partitions and it didn't mess with the BIOS settings. This captured image then worked on other blades. Hope this helps, Andy On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Prem Kumar prem.it.ku...@gmail.com wrote: hi Josh, i will give it a try with the latest partimage-ng, so that i can recreate rootimg.gz with new partimage, could you provide pointers to creating the rootimg.gz, i am amazed how tiny it is. you mention that you heavily use partimage, from this i understand that it takes care of creating the efi, msr and primary partition required for windows? do i get this wrong that we need these sets of partitions for windows. hoping to hear from you on the above questions before you leave for your break, - in any case have a wonderful break. hopefully i will understand this better by then. regards, prem. On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Josh Thompson josh_thomp...@ncsu.edu wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Prem, We're not using partimage-ng. So, I haven't worked with it since I initially wrote the code to handle it. partimage can definitely handle a mix of windows and linux images. We use it quite heavily. Also, I see there is a newer version of partimage-ng than the one I compiled into the rootimg.gz image, and it can even handle LVM partitions. So, it may be worth giving that a shot. I was hoping to see if I could replicate your problem soon but didn't have time to. I'm out all next week. So, it'd be the first week of July before I'll have any time to do any testing with it. Josh On Thursday June 23, 2011, Prem Kumar wrote: hi Josh, i seem to get a feeling that partimage-ng cannot support 'UEFI; based partitions, hence when it tries to restore an image to a disk with a previously installed linux partition, results in an error. could you confirm that if partimage/partimage-ng could be used to capture/restore bare metal images of Windows? if this isn't true, then is WinPE the only option? ?? regards, prem. On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Prem Kumar prem.it.ku...@gmail.com wrote: hello again, i have not been able to restore a 'windows 7' image back onto a node that initially had an 'rhel' installed, essentially due to difference in partitions. since i ended up using partimage-ng for creating 'rhel' images by setting usepartimageng=1 in the /install/postscripts/partimageng script. now i am married to using partimage-ng section of the /install/postscripts/partimageng script. -- any idea how i could resolve this? I missing something again? could we zero out the partition on restore and would it work? regards, prem. - -- - --- Josh Thompson VCL Developer North Carolina State University my GPG/PGP key can be found at pgp.mit.edu -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk4E35MACgkQV/LQcNdtPQO05gCfbH4CDcaJxg6ZNgwRxGb+tSe5 ny4AmQGBSkyO+lb0FeJoGdl7HMHpHnbz =1imX -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: VCL - xCAT- BladeCenter - Windows 7 - Partimage - Restore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Prem, We're not using partimage-ng. So, I haven't worked with it since I initially wrote the code to handle it. partimage can definitely handle a mix of windows and linux images. We use it quite heavily. Also, I see there is a newer version of partimage-ng than the one I compiled into the rootimg.gz image, and it can even handle LVM partitions. So, it may be worth giving that a shot. I was hoping to see if I could replicate your problem soon but didn't have time to. I'm out all next week. So, it'd be the first week of July before I'll have any time to do any testing with it. Josh On Thursday June 23, 2011, Prem Kumar wrote: hi Josh, i seem to get a feeling that partimage-ng cannot support 'UEFI; based partitions, hence when it tries to restore an image to a disk with a previously installed linux partition, results in an error. could you confirm that if partimage/partimage-ng could be used to capture/restore bare metal images of Windows? if this isn't true, then is WinPE the only option? ?? regards, prem. On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Prem Kumar prem.it.ku...@gmail.com wrote: hello again, i have not been able to restore a 'windows 7' image back onto a node that initially had an 'rhel' installed, essentially due to difference in partitions. since i ended up using partimage-ng for creating 'rhel' images by setting usepartimageng=1 in the /install/postscripts/partimageng script. now i am married to using partimage-ng section of the /install/postscripts/partimageng script. -- any idea how i could resolve this? I missing something again? could we zero out the partition on restore and would it work? regards, prem. - -- - --- Josh Thompson VCL Developer North Carolina State University my GPG/PGP key can be found at pgp.mit.edu -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk4E35MACgkQV/LQcNdtPQO05gCfbH4CDcaJxg6ZNgwRxGb+tSe5 ny4AmQGBSkyO+lb0FeJoGdl7HMHpHnbz =1imX -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: VCL - xCAT- BladeCenter - Windows 7 - Partimage - Restore
hi Josh, i will give it a try with the latest partimage-ng, so that i can recreate rootimg.gz with new partimage, could you provide pointers to creating the rootimg.gz, i am amazed how tiny it is. you mention that you heavily use partimage, from this i understand that it takes care of creating the efi, msr and primary partition required for windows? do i get this wrong that we need these sets of partitions for windows. hoping to hear from you on the above questions before you leave for your break, - in any case have a wonderful break. hopefully i will understand this better by then. regards, prem. On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Josh Thompson josh_thomp...@ncsu.edu wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Prem, We're not using partimage-ng. So, I haven't worked with it since I initially wrote the code to handle it. partimage can definitely handle a mix of windows and linux images. We use it quite heavily. Also, I see there is a newer version of partimage-ng than the one I compiled into the rootimg.gz image, and it can even handle LVM partitions. So, it may be worth giving that a shot. I was hoping to see if I could replicate your problem soon but didn't have time to. I'm out all next week. So, it'd be the first week of July before I'll have any time to do any testing with it. Josh On Thursday June 23, 2011, Prem Kumar wrote: hi Josh, i seem to get a feeling that partimage-ng cannot support 'UEFI; based partitions, hence when it tries to restore an image to a disk with a previously installed linux partition, results in an error. could you confirm that if partimage/partimage-ng could be used to capture/restore bare metal images of Windows? if this isn't true, then is WinPE the only option? ?? regards, prem. On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Prem Kumar prem.it.ku...@gmail.com wrote: hello again, i have not been able to restore a 'windows 7' image back onto a node that initially had an 'rhel' installed, essentially due to difference in partitions. since i ended up using partimage-ng for creating 'rhel' images by setting usepartimageng=1 in the /install/postscripts/partimageng script. now i am married to using partimage-ng section of the /install/postscripts/partimageng script. -- any idea how i could resolve this? I missing something again? could we zero out the partition on restore and would it work? regards, prem. - -- - --- Josh Thompson VCL Developer North Carolina State University my GPG/PGP key can be found at pgp.mit.edu -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk4E35MACgkQV/LQcNdtPQO05gCfbH4CDcaJxg6ZNgwRxGb+tSe5 ny4AmQGBSkyO+lb0FeJoGdl7HMHpHnbz =1imX -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: VCL - xCAT- BladeCenter - Windows 7 - Partimage - Restore
hi Josh, i seem to get a feeling that partimage-ng cannot support 'UEFI; based partitions, hence when it tries to restore an image to a disk with a previously installed linux partition, results in an error. could you confirm that if partimage/partimage-ng could be used to capture/restore bare metal images of Windows? if this isn't true, then is WinPE the only option? ?? regards, prem. On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Prem Kumar prem.it.ku...@gmail.com wrote: hello again, i have not been able to restore a 'windows 7' image back onto a node that initially had an 'rhel' installed, essentially due to difference in partitions. since i ended up using partimage-ng for creating 'rhel' images by setting usepartimageng=1 in the /install/postscripts/partimageng script. now i am married to using partimage-ng section of the /install/postscripts/partimageng script. -- any idea how i could resolve this? I missing something again? could we zero out the partition on restore and would it work? regards, prem.
