Hi Bernard,

Brian checked in a potential fix (clean MBR) into trunk that might solve the problem - do you mind testing it for us and see if it works?

OK, in stead of waiting for the parted developers to fix this bug,
a neat workaround is to zero out the MBR !  I didn't realize this would
suffice...  Anyway, for simplicity I manually added these lines from
Server.pm in the node master script just before the parted "mklabel"
command:

# Wipe the MBR (Master Boot Record) clean.
logmsg "dd if=/dev/zero of=$DISK0 bs=512 count=1 || shellout"
dd if=/dev/zero of=$DISK0 bs=512 count=1 || shellout

Lo and behold, the succeeding parted "mklabel" commands now work
without any problems, and SystemImager installation proceeds normally !

I wonder if this workaround is a permanent solution that should stay
in the SystemImager code, or if it's really a problem which should be
explained in more detail to the parted develeopers, hoping that they
would ultimately fix it ?

Thanks,
Ole

--
Ole Holm Nielsen
Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark


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