On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 10:09:52AM -0500, John G Heim wrote:
I am using disklabel:gpt to create a GPT style partition table. You
can also use disklabel:msdos to make the old style partition table.
This belongs on your disk_config line before you specify partitions,
file systems, etc.
I have some machines that will PXE boot if the hard disk is not
bootable. Usually, I make that so by writing zeros to the first million
blocks. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda count=100.
[Note, I know that a million blocks is way more than necessary.]
-- But that appears to cause a problem
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 08:47:49AM -0500, John G Heim wrote:
I have some machines that will PXE boot if the hard disk is not
bootable. Usually, I make that so by writing zeros to the first
million blocks. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda count=100.
[Note, I know that a million blocks is way
On 07/10/2015 07:46 AM, John G Heim wrote:
My setup-storage config is below. I copied it from a working FAI
setup. Our current FAI server is debian wheezy with FAI 4.3.1. I'm
setting up an ubuntu vivid server with FAI 4.3.3.
I mentioned in another message that I happen to be blind. But I did
I am using disklabel:gpt to create a GPT style partition table. You
can also use disklabel:msdos to make the old style partition table.
This belongs on your disk_config line before you specify partitions,
file systems, etc.
Oh, when I heard that, I thought it was a way to label a partition
