setup-storage : Error: Error initialising SCSI device /dev/sda - Invalid argument

[Rudy Gevaert]

Hello Henning,

Quoting "Henning Sprang" <henning.sprang at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Rudy Gevaert <rudy.gevaert at ugent.be> wrote:
>> Should I move this to the parted list?
>
> Sorry for not being able to say anything about this, I've been very
> busy and did not do anything with FAI the last months.
>
> Now that I do some things with it again, it took me only 2 days until
> I stumble into the same thing on a customer system ( partitioning
> breaking with  "Table header not seen yet"
>
> As far as I understood, this is a bug in parted - is it solved in the
> meantime, or is the only solution still to install the system with the
> old partition tool?


In my case I had that problem with xen.  I 'fixed' it by changing the  
disk type to xvda (instead of sda)

Can you try that (if you are using xen)
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