-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi,
I encountered some strange errors regarding sfdisk. The host has been installed with FAI 2.5.4 (kernel 2.4) and now I want to reinstall it FAI 2.8.3 (kernel 2.6.11.12). The partition layout is the same since the last installation. hda2 should be preserved. It looks like, that sfdisk now wants to use a different harddisk geometry from the first partitioning. As a result, sfdisk isn't able to takeover the layout and wants to do a new paritioning. However, I don't want it to do so :) Has somebody an idea, what could be done to solve this? === fai.log === alling hook: partition.DEFAULT setup_harddisks version 0.35fai Probing disks: /dev/hda Disks found: hdaWarning: extended partition does not start at a cylinder boundary. DOS and Linux will interpret the contents differently. Using config file: /fai-personal/disk_config/MATH_IDE_PART_ADMIN_80_PNLINUX Mapping disk name disk1 to hda Creating partition table: LC_ALL=C sfdisk -q /dev/hda < /tmp/fai/partition.hda Warning: extended partition does not start at a cylinder boundary. DOS and Linux will interpret the contents differently. Warning: The partition table looks like it was made for C/H/S=*/255/63 (instead of 155061/16/63). For this listing I'll assume that geometry. sfdisk: I don't like these partitions - nothing changed. (If you really want this, use the --force option.) SFDISK ERROR: Disk /dev/hda: 155061 cylinders, 16 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+ 2549 2550- 20482843+ 83 Linux /dev/hda2 * 2550 4462 1913 15366172+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda3 4463 9728 5266 42299145 5 Extended /dev/hda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty /dev/hda5 4463+ 4590 128- 1028128+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/hda6 4591+ 5100 510- 4096543+ 83 Linux /dev/hda7 5101+ 5355 255- 2048256 83 Linux /dev/hda8 5356+ 5674 319- 2562336 83 Linux /dev/hda9 5675+ 9728 4054- 32563723+ 83 Linux New situation: Units = sectors of 512 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #sectors Id System /dev/hda1 * 63 40960079 40960017 83 Linux /dev/hda2 40965750 71698094 30732345 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda3 71699040 156301487 84602448 5 Extended /dev/hda4 0 - 0 0 Empty /dev/hda5 71699103 73747295 2048193 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/hda6 73747359 81939311 8191953 83 Linux /dev/hda7 81939375 86035823 4096449 83 Linux /dev/hda8 86035887 91156463 5120577 83 Linux /dev/hda9 91156527 156301487 65144961 83 Linux partition.DEFAULT OK. === fai.log === The configuration file for sfdisk: === MATH_IDE_PART_ADMIN_80_PNLINUX === disk_config disk1 primary / 20000 ;xfs primary - preserve2 logical swap 1000 ;xfs logical /var 4000 ;xfs logical /tmp 2000 ;xfs logical /cdtemp 2500 ;xfs logical /.hostpart 0- ;xfs lazyformat === MATH_IDE_PART_ADMIN_80_PNLINUX === Holger Mense - -- Holger Mense Rechnerbetrieb Mathematik Tel.: 0 52 51 / 60 34 94 Universität Paderborn http://www.math.uni-paderborn.de -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDAwcPHjdfhHqYjTQRAkDNAJsGef3gkF168CaRCSwAwDJyN2EgpACgjLu9 RDC91psm74wxoi3l7mme0VQ= =iSuH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----