AW: AW: Windows Partition has to be preserved

[Peter Burger]

 Ok, I have got the fai.log, that's the content:

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               Fully Automatic Installation for Debian GNU/Linux
               FAI 2.10.1, 20 Apr 2006    Copyright (c) 1999-2006
               Thomas Lange      <lange at informatik.uni-koeln.de>
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Calling task_confdir
Kernel parameters: ip=dhcp devfs=nomount FAI_ACTION=install root=/dev/nfs
nfsroot=/usr/lib/fai/nfsroot,v2,rsize=32768,wsize=32768
FAI_FLAGS=verbose,sshd,createvt  BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz-install 
Reading /var/log/fai/current/boot.log
Configuration space /fai mounted from 134.103.212.132:/usr/local/share/fai
Can't connect to monserver on 134.103.212.132 port 4711. Monitoring
disabled.
Calling task_setup
FAI_FLAGS: verbose sshd createvt
Press ctrl-c to interrupt FAI and to get a shell
Calling task_defclass
/usr/bin/fai-class: Defining classes.
Executing /fai/class/10-base-classes.
10-base-classes      OK.
Executing /fai/class/20-hwdetect.source.
loading kernel module rtc
loading kernel module floppy
loading kernel module usbkbd
loading kernel module ide-disk
loading kernel module ide-cd
loading kernel module usbhid
loading kernel module usbmouse
loading kernel module ide-generic
Discovering hardware: usb-uhci ata_piix sk98lin ohci1394 e100
Skipping usb-uhci; assuming it is compiled into the kernel.
Loading ata_piix:
Skipping sk98lin; assuming it is compiled into the kernel.
Loading ohci1394:
Skipping e100; assuming it is compiled into the kernel.
Video card detected: 
20-hwdetect.source   OK.
Executing /fai/class/50-host-classes.
50-host-classes      OK.
List of all classes: DEFAULT LINUX I386 FAIBASE DHCPC GRUB infcip99 LAST
Calling task_defvar
Executing FAIBASE.var
++ FAI_CONSOLEFONT=
++ FAI_KEYMAP=us-latin1
++ UTC=yes
++ time_zone=Europe/Berlin
++ rootpw=56hNVqht51tzc
++ moduleslist=usbkbd usb-uhci keybdev mousedev hid psmouse
Loading keymap(s) us-latin1 ...done.
Calling task_action
FAI_ACTION: install
Performing FAI installation. All data may be overwritten!

Calling task_install
Calling task_partition
Partitioning local harddisks
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 --force  /dev/hda <
/var/log/fai/current/partition.hda
Checking that no-one is using this disk right now ...OK
start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,0,1)
start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (486,1,1)
end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (176,254,63)
start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (177,1,1)
end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (283,254,63)
start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (284,1,1)
end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (704,254,63)

sfdisk: input error: unexpected character - after size field

SFDISK ERROR:

Disk /dev/hda: 30401 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track

Old situation:
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

Device Boot Start     End   #cyls    #blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *      0+   6629    6630-  53255443+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2       6630   30400   23771  190940557+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda3          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
/dev/hda4          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
/dev/hda5       6630+  19632   13003- 104446566    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda6      19633+  24859    5227-  41985846    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda7      24860+  30400    5541-  44508051    7  HPFS/NTFS

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 --force  /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.

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Von: owner-linux-fai at rrz.uni-koeln.de
[mailto:owner-linux-fai at rrz.uni-koeln.de] Im Auftrag von Thomas Lange
Gesendet: Dienstag, 13. Juni 2006 11:44
An: linux-fai
Betreff: Re: AW: Windows Partition has to be preserved

>>>>> On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 10:11:41 +0200, Peter Burger
<peter.burger at student.fh-reutlingen.de> said:

    > the error message, I don't get a command line or something where I can
    > collect some logs...
OK, let's fix that first. You should have called fai-chboot -IFv clientname

Then when you boot you install client, you will get another console by
typing alt-F2.

Try this because otherwise it's very hard to debug.

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regards Thomas