setting up Debian Squeeze with a Debian Lenny fai server

[Michael Tautschnig]

[...]

> 
> Client does boot now, but fails after
> Performing FAI installation
> on partitioning
> 
> "Failed to obtain UUID for /dev/sda8
> This may happen if the device was part of a RAID array in the past;
> "
> 
> I deleted th partition table, reboot, same error.
> 

*If* this disk/device was really part of a RAID array before deleting the
partition table will not suffice. Instead, you need to run

mdadm --zero-superblock <device>

> Maybe the price for using (not so far from stable) 'testing' ? ;)
> 

No, should not be the case, bleeding edge is our experimental packages :-) But,
well, if it is not RAID-related, could you please provide debug logs?

Thanks a lot,
Michael

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