From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of chan gux
Sent: Fri 5/20/2005 4:43 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] sfdisk prepareclient problem
Hi Peter and thanks for your help.
The computer has a BCM
5700 NIC and works fine with my own
systemimager boot kernel.
The real
problem is when execute the prepareclient command. After
update the
systemimager packages, the error is the same:
sfdisk: seek error: wanted
0x0000000000000000, got 0x0000000000000000
Using "sfdisk" to gather
information about disk:
/dev/sda
sfdisk: seek
error: wanted 0x0000000000000000, got 0x0000000000000000
Starting or
re-starting rsync as a daemon.....
done!
This client is ready to have
its image retrieved. You must now run
the "si_getimage" command on your
imageserver.
In the server, i check
in
/var/lib/systemimager/scripts/imagename.master script and find that
the
file doesn't have information about partitioning hard disk:
### BEGIN
partition /dev/sda ###
echo "Partitioning /dev/sda..."
echo "Old partition
table for /dev/sda:"
parted -s -- /dev/sda print
# Create disk
label. This ensures that all remnants of the old label, whatever
# type
it was, are removed and that we're starting with a clean label.
echo "parted
-s -- /dev/sda mklabel msdos || shellout"
parted -s -- /dev/sda mklabel msdos
|| shellout
# Get the size of the destination disk so that we can make
the
partitions fit properly.
DISK_SIZE=`parted -s /dev/sda print | grep
'Disk geometry for' | sed
's/^.*-//g' | sed 's/\..*$//' `
[ -z $DISK_SIZE
] && shellout
if [ "$ARCH" = "alpha" ]; then
END_OF_LAST_PRIMARY=1
else
END_OF_LAST_PRIMARY=0
fi
echo "New partition table for
/dev/sda:"
echo "parted -s -- /dev/sda print"
parted -s -- /dev/sda
print
### END partition /dev/sda ###
In another image (another golden
client with FC3) the image.master script have:
echo "Creating partition
/dev/sda1."
START_MB=$END_OF_LAST_PRIMARY
END_MB=$(echo "scale=3;
($START_MB + 47)" | bc)
echo "parted -s -- /dev/sda mkpart primary ext2
$START_MB $END_MB || shellout"
parted -s -- /dev/sda mkpart primary ext2
$START_MB $END_MB || shellout
END_OF_LAST_PRIMARY=$END_MB
The error in
prepareclient doesn't allow the machine to load the
actual partition
table..... i can replace the command sfdisk and
parameters in perl scripts
(located in
/usr/lib/systemimager/perl/SystemImager) and use another tool
(as
parted) to fetch description of golden client partitions?
many
thanks,
polkan
On 5/20/05, Peter Mueller
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have a dell optiplex 280 as
golden client and when i run:
>
> This device needs updated network
driver and SATA driver. Neither is in the
> default SATA
kernel.
>
> > The machine have installed mandrake 10.1 power pack
(kernel
> > 2.6 and serial ata hard disk). The installed software
is:
>
> OK, SATA for sure. Not sure if its bcm5700 ('tg3') or
e1000. Either way it
> does need an updated network driver
too.
>
> > systemconfigurator-2.0.9-1.noarch.rpm
> >
perl-AppConfig-1.52-4.noarch.rpm
> >
systemimager-client-3.2.3-1.noarch.rpm
> >
systemimager-common-3.2.3-1.noarch.rpm
>
> Upgrade to 3.4.1 and
re-image. 3.4.1 is the latest stable and has some
>
bugfixes.
>
> > Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40000000000 bytes
>
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4863 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders
of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> >
> >
Device Boot
Start
End Blocks Id System
>
> /dev/sda1
*
1
14 112423+ 83 Linux
> >
/dev/sda2
15 4863
38949592+ 5 Extended
> >
/dev/sda5
15 148
1076323+ 82 Linux swap
> >
/dev/sda6
149 893
5984181 83 Linux
> >
/dev/sda7
894 2169
10249438+ 83 Linux
> >
/dev/sda8
2170 4863
21639523+ 83 Linux
>
> You can use my ISO or kernel
after re-imaging with 3.4.1, it has everything
> you need.
>
>
http://world.anarchy.com/~peter/systemimager/
>
>
Regards,
>
> P
>
>
>
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