Where is the .mbr file?

[Robotic]

Is there a reason why when you capture an image there would not be the d1.mbr file in the image folder?

I had written a lengthy post that seemed to have gotten deleted when i went to verify my email.

I can provide more details if needed, but just wondered if there was something silly i am missing here. This is on a new install. One machine captured perfectly and then the last two images I tried to capture did not include the MBR file for whatever reason.

Thanks!

[Sebastian Roth]

@Robotic Can you please let us know the FOG version you are using? As well please run the following command and post output here: ls -alR /images

Is there a reason why when you capture an image there would not be the d1.mbr file in the image folder?

The only obvious reason I can think of right now is if you set the option Partition in the image settings to something like “Partition 2 only”.

Do you get any error when deploying the image? I suppose so. Please take a picture and post that here too.

[Robotic]

Sebastian, thanks for your reply!

I am running dev-branch 1.5.7.109

The reason I am doing that is because it was the only fix i could find for some of our newer machines with nvme drives. As you can see in the screenshot i added that one arg pertaining to nvme latency. That wouldnt affect the image capture process would it?

One temporary fix i found was to fire up our older Fog server and copy the .mbr from the older images for the corresponding machine. That is why there is a difference in the screenshot and the output from the command I ran per your request later.
total 28
drwxrwxrwx 7 fogproject root 4096 Feb 6 09:36 .
drwxr-xr-x 27 root root 4096 Feb 3 08:20 …
drwxrwxrwx 3 fogproject root 4096 Feb 6 09:36 dev
drwxrwxrwx 2 fogproject root 4096 Jan 28 09:59 HP850
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Feb 6 08:39 HP-9470
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Feb 6 10:11 HP-9480
-rwxrwxrwx 1 fogproject root 0 Jan 27 07:38 .mntcheck
drwxrwxrwx 2 fogproject root 4096 Jan 27 07:38 postdownloadscripts

/images/dev:
total 12
drwxrwxrwx 3 fogproject root 4096 Feb 6 09:36 .
drwxrwxrwx 7 fogproject root 4096 Feb 6 09:36 …
-rwxrwxrwx 1 fogproject root 0 Jan 27 07:38 .mntcheck
drwxrwxrwx 2 fogproject root 4096 Jan 27 07:38 postinitscripts

/images/dev/postinitscripts:
total 12
drwxrwxrwx 2 fogproject root 4096 Jan 27 07:38 .
drwxrwxrwx 3 fogproject root 4096 Feb 6 09:36 …
-rwxrwxrwx 1 fogproject root 249 Jan 27 07:38 fog.postinit

/images/HP850:
total 26461236
drwxrwxrwx 2 fogproject root 4096 Jan 28 09:59 .
drwxrwxrwx 7 fogproject root 4096 Feb 6 09:36 …
-rwxrwxrwx 1 fogproject root 21 Jan 28 09:45 d1.fixed_size_partitions
-rwxrwxrwx 1 fogproject root 1048576 Jan 28 09:45 d1.mbr
-rwxrwxrwx 1 fogproject root 1276 Jan 28 09:45 d1.minimum.partitions
-rwxrwxrwx 1 fogproject root 20 Jan 28 09:45 d1.original.fstypes
-rwxrwxrwx 1 fogproject root 0 Jan 28 09:45 d1.original.swapuuids
-rwxrwxrwx 1 fogproject root 69875808 Jan 28 09:45 d1p1.img
-rwxrwxrwx 1 fogproject root 13184050 Jan 28 09:45 d1p2.img
-rwxrwxrwx 1 fogproject root 26293167050 Jan 28 09:59 d1p3.img
-rwxrwxrwx 1 fogproject root 718519248 Jan 28 09:59 d1p4.img
-rwxrwxrwx 1 fogproject root 67311 Jan 28 09:59 d1p5.img
-rwxrwxrwx 1 fogproject root 400277 Jan 28 09:59 d1p6.img
-rwxrwxrwx 1 fogproject root 1267 Jan 28 09:45 d1.partitions

/images/HP-9470:
total 27637924
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Feb 6 08:39 .
drwxrwxrwx 7 fogproject root 4096 Feb 6 09:36 …
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2 Feb 6 06:51 d1.fixed_size_partitions
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 308 Feb 6 06:52 d1.minimum.partitions
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 45 Feb 6 06:52 d1.original.fstypes
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Feb 6 06:51 d1.original.swapuuids
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11050947 Feb 6 06:52 d1p1.img
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27253016960 Feb 6 07:11 d1p2.img
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 545705657 Feb 6 07:11 d1p3.img
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 490374706 Feb 6 07:11 d1p4.img
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 308 Feb 6 06:51 d1.partitions

/images/HP-9480:
total 15882304
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Feb 6 10:11 .
drwxrwxrwx 7 fogproject root 4096 Feb 6 09:36 …
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2 Feb 6 09:24 d1.fixed_size_partitions
-rw-r–r-- 1 administrator administrator 1048576 Feb 3 08:58 d1.mbr
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 249 Feb 6 09:25 d1.minimum.partitions
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Feb 6 09:25 d1.original.fstypes
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Feb 6 09:24 d1.original.swapuuids
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10849078 Feb 6 09:25 d1p1.img
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15666922065 Feb 6 09:36 d1p2.img
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 584621718 Feb 6 09:36 d1p3.img
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 249 Feb 6 09:24 d1.partitions

/images/postdownloadscripts:
total 12
drwxrwxrwx 2 fogproject root 4096 Jan 27 07:38 .
drwxrwxrwx 7 fogproject root 4096 Feb 6 09:36 …
-rwxrwxrwx 1 fogproject root 235 Jan 27 07:38 fog.postdownload

[Sebastian Roth]

@Robotic said in Where is the .mbr file?:

As you can see in the screenshot i added that one arg pertaining to nvme latency. That wouldnt affect the image capture process would it?

No, shouldn’t cause this issue.

What jumps at me in the file listing is this:

/images/HP-9480:
total 15882304
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Feb 6 10:11 .
drwxrwxrwx 7 fogproject root 4096 Feb 6 09:36 …
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2 Feb 6 09:24 d1.fixed_size_partitions
-rw-r–r-- 1 administrator administrator 1048576 Feb 3 08:58 d1.mbr
...

Two things:

1. The name in the listing is different than in the picture: HP-9480 vs. HP9480
2. The file is owned by a user called administrator. Seems like someone messed with this image.

No idea why d1.mbr is missing in /images/HP-9470 directory!?!