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    • Tom ElliottT
      Tom Elliott
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      Yes and no.

      GPT likes to leave stale elements. I, do however, believe even if it’s an intentional MBR/GPT structure, it’s still going to report as MBR on Windows Disk Management.

      Running sgdisk -Z /dev/sda removes the entire partitioning table completely. It’s essentially turning the drive into an uninitialized drive.

      I think this is why you’re seeing the issues you are. Just because Windows DiskManagement references it as MBR DOES NOT MEAN it is a pure MBR filestructure.

      This is why the fixparts was suggested, it will find all GPT structures (whether real or just left over) and remove them. sgdisk -Z /dev/sda does this in one nice and neat little command rather than having fixparts try to guess what’s what.

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      • JunkhackerJ
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        Gparted may have wiped the partitions but not the boot sector. I haven’t used Gparted in a while and i’m not sure how GPT aware it is. Tom, does it sound possible that fog is seeing leftover bits of the GPT information in the boot sector, and looking for GPT, when the partitions are actually MBR?

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          Alistair
          last edited by

          I see. I’ll try taking an image anyway just to check if GParted did the job.

          Exactly how and where do I use that syntax? Do I need to download a gsdisk ISO and burn a gsdisk boot CD?

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            Alistair
            last edited by

            Tried imaging the USDT - Exactly the same problem. Now I must use this sgdisk syntax.
            I’ll assume that I need to download an ISO of sgdisk and burn it to CD then boot off that. (I know: sgdisk not gsdisk)
            Unless I’m told something else. Man I’m running out of time. The teachers come back Tuesday 22nd.

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              Alistair
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              I’m getting SystemRescueCD
              It has GPTdisk 0.8.8 (the latest is 0.8.10)

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                Alistair
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                I confirmed that the BIOS has “EUFI Boot Order” completely disabled.
                Booted from SystemRescue-CD. Ended up seeing the following:

                root@sysresccd /root %

                I typed:
                sgdisk -Z /dev/sda

                “Invalid partition data!”
                “GPT data structures destroyed! You may now partition the disk using fdisk or other utilities.”

                Somewhat confusing to see the line “Invalid partition data”. But the 2nd line gives the impression that the job is done.
                I assume now that I will not create any partitions myself but allow the Win 8.1 DVD to do it for me.
                Is that correct?

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                  Alistair
                  last edited by

                  It works. It’s taking an image!!

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                    Alistair
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                    The image is captured and present on fogserver. I’ll try deploying it tonight to another client.

                    Well now I’ve learnt something. MBR is not always MBR.
                    And deleting all partitions with GParted does not delete the Boot Sector.

                    Thanks for sticking with me on this Tom and JunkHacker.

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                    • Tom ElliottT
                      Tom Elliott
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                      Yes, sorry I didn’t get to respond sooner. I was driving in to work.

                      In the future, just understand that you didn’t need to download a rescue disk.

                      Where you go to schedule a task, you can choose advanced options and choose a download or upload task with the phrase Debug after it. It will boot the client system and drop the system into a terminal prompt screen where you can type commands. You didn’t have to download a CD to boot into to run the command.

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                      Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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                        Alistair
                        last edited by

                        I used Clonezilla to take an image of fogserver now that everything is working. Task completed.
                        Rebooted fogserver
                        Tried to take an image of the new HP SFF and discovered that I’m back to PXE TFTP timeout on the client.
                        That issue was already resolved by using IP address 10.0.1.40 under DHCP scope option 066.
                        tftpd-hpa is already running on fogserver.
                        I’ll try rebooting fogserver again. No joy.
                        I’ll restart DHCP on server. No joy.
                        I don’t believe this!!

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                          Alistair
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                          I suspect the problem is the fogserver because after the reboot, the “Brightness Lock” settings were wrong.
                          I had set them 2 days ago to never turn off the screen with inactivity, and it worked. But after the Clonezilla imaging and reboot, the screen turned itself off after 10 minutes. Even though the settings are “never”.

                          status mysql = running
                          status tftpd-hpa = running

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                            Alistair
                            last edited by

                            I used Clonezilla before on the old HP version 32 fogserver without problem.

                            Can I check anything else on fogserver?

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                              Alistair
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                              Restarted DNS on server - No joy

                              I stopped tftpd-hpa and then started it. That fixed it. Now it’s working.

                              sudo stop tftpd-hpa
                              sudo start tftpd-hpa

                              What a relief.
                              Anyone have any idea why?

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                              • B
                                BPSTravis Developer
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                                Doesn’t seem like the hpa service is starting fully or is starting too soon.

                                You can always check the system logs and see if it’s providing any errors when it’s starting.

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                                • JunkhackerJ
                                  Junkhacker Developer
                                  last edited by

                                  [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/ubuntu-11-04-distro-that-just-works-heres-how.4378/#post-12571[/url] this might help

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                                    Alistair
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                                    Tom I need to use the following you suggested:
                                    sanboot --no-describe --drive 0x80 is the line in BootMenu.class.php that deals with how to pass to the harddrive. That said, not all systems like this method. If your systems are freezing. Try changing those lines to just say: exit.

                                    Do I change all 3 places this text appears in the file?

                                    There is additional text on these lines. Precisely which words do I replace with exit.
                                    Is it only the words: “sanboot --no-describe --drive 0x80” ?

                                    I need an answer as soon as possible.

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                                    • Tom ElliottT
                                      Tom Elliott
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                                      [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/fog-33b-installation-hp-elite-8300-sff.10315/page-3#post-25472[/url]

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                                      Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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                                        Alistair
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                                        Thanks and sorry. I thought that code was something to do with GPT.

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                                          Alistair
                                          last edited by

                                          The new code worked. The old HPs are now going further after the pxe fog and booting into the OS.

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                                            Alistair
                                            last edited by

                                            I have just tried to deploy Linux to 13 PCs in 1 classroom.
                                            All booted automatically and loaded the pxe file.
                                            But they did not pick up the image. They just
                                            rebooted to pxe fog window
                                            rebooted to pxe fog window
                                            rebooted to pxe fog window
                                            endlessly

                                            It’s 21:30 now and this is a real downer.

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