I found the origin of the problem when installing on master (instead of slave) hdd. There is a Host Protected Area on the disk with a size of 1 Mb. When image is being deployed boel kernel says that there is a HPA and the it says that it was disabled. When system is booting scientific linux, it’s kernel does not disable this area, so disk becomes truncated. Consequently, the last partition is out of disk. If drive is in slave mode, than kernel does not detect HPA at all ☹ in both kernels.
The solution is quite simple (but still rather difficult to google it ☺ ) – you should pass ‘hda=stroke’ option to the kernel - than it also ignores HPA on the disk. Of you you can simply rewrite autoinstall script to think that disk size is 1 Mb smaller, or 10Mb. I suppose it is a bug in systemimager, because different kernels are used during system installation and system operation. This causes bad things like above, and there could be other problems of this type. Despite this problem systemimager works great. Thanks to all. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Sisuite-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
