Windows Partition has to be preserved

[Michael Tautschnig]

> I'm using FAI 2.10.1 with FAI-Kernel 1.10.3.
> 
> The error-message comes up after:
> 
> Calling task_partition:
> ...
> 'Here is the partition table'
> ...
> Setup_harddisks version 0.38fai
> Probing disks = /dev/hda
> Disks found: hda.
> Using config file: /fai/disk_config/FAIBASE
> Mapping disk name disk1 to hda
> Creating partition table: LC_ALL=C sfdisk -q /dev/hda <
> /var/log/fai/current/partition.hda
> Cp: cannot stat '/var/log/fai/current/disk_var.sh': No such file or
> directory
> Setup_harddisks did not create /var/log/fai/current/disk_var.sh file.
> ... and the system stops there.
> 
> Another fact is, if I use the same disk_config/FAIBASE and there is no
> Windows XP installed on the machine, it works!!!! Maybe there is some
> trouble with the partitioning Windows vs. Linux (sfdisk)?!?
> 
> Yes, I know that I loose the data, if i comment out the first line, but it
> doesn't matter. It is only a test-system with a blank Win XP installation.
> But I should do the same procedure with 30 other boxes, and there, the data
> on the Windows partitions is critical. 
> 
> 
> Have you an idea what is going wrong there?
>

Do you find any further information in /tmp/fai/format.log? I suspect this to be
a disk geometry issue, see also, e.g.,
http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-fai@rrz.uni-koeln.de/msg03236.html

HTH,
Michael

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