setup-storage and preserving partitions

[Andreas Heinlein]

Am 16.06.2010 10:23, schrieb Thomas Lange:
>>>>>> On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:39:23 +0200, Andreas Heinlein <aheinlein at gmx.com> said:
>>>>>>             
>     > disk_config disk1 disklabel:msdos bootable:1 preserve_reinstall:7
>     > primary    10240    /    ext4    rw,errors=remount-ro
>     > logical    2048    swap    swap    -
>     > logical    1024    /tmp    ext3    defaults
>     > logical    1024-    /media/daten    ext4    acl
>
>     > Preserving works when installing without "initial", but when installing
>     > a new machine with "initial" Flag given, setup-storage still complains
>     > that /dev/sda7 cannot be preserved because it does not exist, instead of
>     > creating it.
> Please give us some parts of the log files. Without log files,
> debugging is very difficult.
>
>   
Hello,

I think I found the problem - I tried to redefine FAI_FLAGS using a
hook, and append "initial" if no partition sda7 with ext4 filesystem can
be found. That way I would not have to deal with changing boot setup for
new clients, and I would really like to keep it that way

Appending to FAI_FLAGS seems to work, I get
echo $FAI_FLAGS
verbose sshd createvt reboot initial
on the console after setup-storage dies,

but variables.log says
FAI_FLAGS='verbose sshd createvt reboot'

If I append "initial" to FAI_FLAGS on the boot command line, everything
works and variables.log says
FAI_FLAGS='verbose sshd createvt reboot initial'

The hook I am using is called partition.MYCLASS.source.

I am appending a log of a run where it did not work.

Thanks,
Andreas

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