FAI cancel client install during HD partitioning.
Marcelo Santana
marcgsantana at yahoo.com.br
Tue Jan 16 13:56:02 CET 2007
--- Stephan Hermann <sh at sourcecode.de> escreveu:
> Thomas Lange wrote:
> >>>>>> On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 16:38:18 -0300, Marcelo Santana
> <marcgsantana at yahoo.com.br> said:
> >
> > > sfdisk: ERROR: sector 0 does not have an msdos signature
> > > /dev/cciss/c0d0: unrecognized partition table type
> > > No partitions found
> > The problem is that your disk contains no (MSDOS) disk label. Most hard
> > disks that you can buy are normally preformatted with an MSDOS disk
> > label. You can create a disk label by running fdisk or cfdisk or
> > parted once.
> >
> > fdisk /dev/cciss/c0d0
> > then type:
> > o
> > w
> > q
> >
> > > Probing disks: /dev/cciss/c0d0
> > > Disks found:
> > It's not good that there's no disk name after "Disk found".
>
> That is one of the problems I had with our HP servers. Some of those
> machines weren't ship with msdos labels or any other labels...and
> partitioning failes...
>
> how could we come over this problem via fai?
>
> if you need another disk label you have to set it via partition.$CLASS
> anyways. And sfdisk is sometimes stupid for this.
>
> Regards,
>
> \sh
>
Thanks a lot for all answers in so short time!
Regards,
Marcelo
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