Fog 1.2 image upload issue

[cabbagepants]

I’m having an issue uploading an image to my fog 1.2 install. The system pxe boots, the image capture starts but then completes in 1 second. The job is marked as completed in the webui, but the image is 0bytes.

I’ve found other threads stating that if i have a folder in the /images/dev directory with the MAC of the machine im trying to image that would suggest an FTP credentials issue. I double checked that the user/pass in the ‘storage node’ section matches that of the fog user in linux. Am i checking in the right place?

Thanks!

[Tom Elliott]

Nope try running a debug upload task and check you system is not set to have gpt structures as it sounds like you have an mbr image but gpt still exists.

[cabbagepants]

I can verify the disk was not setup as GPT, but I am attempting an upload of a Ubuntu “oem” install. The system consists of 2 partitions- one main ext3 partition and a small swap.

I searched around for more info on this and found a similar post here: [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/cant-upload-linux-image-caixa-magica-16.503/[/url]

However this post is from FOG .33 and I can’t quite make sense of the reported solution.

Can anyone verify that they are able to capture and deploy linux images to hosts? I thought i had read that support for imaging linux was added in 1.2, but I’m having a hard time finding practical examples or guides.

Thanks Again!

[Tom Elliott]

Can you please give my thoughts a show for their money at least?

[cabbagepants]

My apologies this took awhile, helpdesk kinda blew up for a bit.

Ok. Results of Debug Upload:

Variable dump:
Osid = 50
Osname = linux
Mbrfile =
Type = up
Storage = 192.168.1.10:/image/dev/
Img = Ubuntu
Imgformat =
Imgtype = mps
Imgformat =
Imgpartitiontype =
Hd = /dev/sda
Part = /dev/sda1

Debug output:
Checking operating system - Linux
Checking cpu cores – 2
Send method – NFS
Checking in – Done
Mounting filesystem – done
Using image: Ubuntu
Preparing backup location – done
Looking for hard disks – done
Using hard disk : /dev/sda
Skipping partition tables and mbr – done
Skipping partition 1 – done
Skipping partition 2 – done
Skipping partition 5 – done

Task complete

I ran a ‘parted -l’ to verify that the disk was MBR and got “Partition Table: msdos” The man page for parted stating: [FONT=Consolas][COLOR=#222222]msdos - this is a standard MBR partition table[/COLOR][/FONT]

Thanks

[Tom Elliott]

What about gdisk -l /dev/sda

[cabbagepants]

Results of gdisk -l /dev/sda:

Partition table scan:
MBR: MBR only
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: not present

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Found invalid GPT and valid MBR; converting MBR to GPT format
in memory.

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Disk /dev/sda: 156250000 sectors, 74.5 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 420B06D6-F910-4D96-A325-287306E0CE94
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 156249966
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 5965 sectors (2.9 MiB)

Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 2048 148146175 70.6 GiB 8300 Linux filesystem
5 148148224 156248063 3.9 GiB 8200 Linux swap

[Tom Elliott]

did you specify a “partition” to image?

[cabbagepants]

No, I set the image as Multi-partition image (non-resizable) and ran a standard Upload task, no special arguments.

[Tom Elliott]

What’s catching my attention is:
[code]Skipping partition tables and mbr – done
Skipping partition 1 – done
Skipping partition 2 – done
Skipping partition 5 – done[/code]

This leads me to think there’s a specific partition specified, or the MBR file is missing. It’s not writing the partition layout on the disk which is why you’re seeing the issue from what I can tell.

[cabbagepants]

I tried imaging this machine with clonezilla and it worked. I’m not terribly familiar with the scripting of osc-sr, but it’s good to know that Partclone is at least capable of what i’m trying to do.

I did notice that the clonezilla restore process had to reinstall grub, so even if i get the image upload/deploy working I’ll have to figure out a way to script the grub reinstall.

If anyone can deduce anything from the clonezilla script, this was it:
[CODE]osc-sr -g auto -e1 auto -e2 -c -r -j2 -p true restoredisk imagename sda[/CODE]

[Tom Elliott]

I’m telling you, it’s already setup in 1.2.0.