AW: Windows Partition has to be preserved

[Peter Burger]

Sorry for bothering you,

I don't have any further information, cause the system crashes down after
the error message, I don't get a command line or something where I can
collect some logs...

I tried the option with the '--force' option in the sfdisk parameters, but
with same result :-(. The other option discussed in the long long article in
the google group is very hard stuff for me, because I'm nearly a newbie (3
months of hard work :-)) in linux and FAI.

So just a few questions, also for other people who have the same problems in
future:
- I have to recompile the linux-kernel 2.6.x provided by FAI to the new
system with the edd-module-patch?
- restart the fai-setup?

Then it should work?

Regards and THX a lot.

Peter


-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Michael Tautschnig [mailto:tautschn at model.in.tum.de] 
Gesendet: Montag, 12. Juni 2006 23:22
An: Peter.Burger at Student.Hochschule-Reutlingen.DE
Cc: linux-fai at rrz.uni-koeln.de
Betreff: Re: Windows Partition has to be preserved

> 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