Hard Drive, SSD, & M.2
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Yes that is correct. The image is 81GB.
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@breit That’s not exactly what I was asking (but good info none the less). I wanted to ensure that the target drive is larger than the nvme drive where you captured the image to. I understand you picked single disk resizable, I want to ensure that you’ve tried to deploy the image to a SATA disk larger than the source disk.
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Yes, sorry I was confirming what you asked and added the image size for reference as well. I tired on a 1TB drive with the same results. It was a SATA HDD.
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@breit if I had to guess, the bios sata operation mode is set as raid rather than ahci
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Either that or we have different block size disks, 512 vs. 4096
@BREIT Please schedule a deploy or capture task as debug and run
fdisk -l /dev/nvme0n1
when you get to the shell. Do this with all the different types of disk you have, take pictures and post those here. -
slighly off point post, but recording for reference.
MBR 512n
Disk /dev/sda: 17.2 GB, 17179869184 bytes, 33554432 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk label type: dos Disk identifier: 0x00006e8c
GPT 512n
Disk /dev/sda: 36003.6 GB, 36003637100544 bytes, 70319603712 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk label type: gpt Disk identifier: 3DAC1844-EDDA-43CD-9334-E0F3515F0AC7
MBR 512e
Disk /dev/sda: 1098.4 GB, 1098437885952 bytes, 2145386496 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disk label type: dos Disk identifier: 0x00000000
4Kn
Disk /dev/sda: 999.0 GB, 998997229568 bytes, 243895808 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 4096 = 4096 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disk label type: gpt Disk identifier: 4CD4D7DC-B85C-47B5-A8D0-BCFA2345A58D
I’m sure there is a better way…
fdisk -l /dev/sda|grep -e "Sector size"|awk '{print $4, $7}'
There is
fdisk -l /dev/sda|awk '/Sector size/{print $4, $7}'
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It was set to ACHI. I even tried ATA for kicks on one of my older computers. All but that one test was in ACHI.
I’ll start on that now and get back with you all.
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So after some more testing. It seems its something with the micro form factor m.2 is causing the issues. @george1421 suggested using VMs to build our images. Something honestly I hadn’t thought of. Since changing to that methodology we haven’t had any issues imaging. It is defiantly something hardware based that wasn’t jiving with the different computers hard drives and imaging with fog.
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Just when I that all was fine it, it is not. We have received new computers Precision 5820’s from Dell. They have a SAS type ssd in them. Fog is unable to locate the hard drive it seems. I did update the server to 1.5.2 yesterday. Any ideas? The image was built in a VM.
pretty rad looking ssd. I haven’t seen one of these before. Sharpie is for size reference.
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Let me add that prior to the update to 1.5.2 this was the error I was getting
failed to set aspt feature -19 FOG
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@breit This bleeding edge stuff is going to be the death of the developers.
We need to collect some information on that system. It would be quicker if I could do it over teamviewer (if you have that option). If not you can do it.
- Register this computer with fog (already done I suspect)
- Schedule a capture or deploy doesn’t matter, but before you hit submit, select the debug check box and submit the task.
- pxe boot the target computer
- After a few enter key presses you will be dropped to a linux console on the target computer.
- Key in
ip addr show
to get the IP address of the target computer, record that for the following steps. - Reset root’s password by issuing this command
passwd
and then give it a simple password like hello - Now use putty and connect to the target computer using the IP address you collected in #5. Login using user
root
and the password you set in #6. - Once logged in then issue the
lsblk
cmd. (hint: because we putty you can copy a paste text between FOS and your computer). - Post the results of lstblk command here.
- Key in the following command
lspci -nn
and post the results here. - Now review the log file /var/log/message You need to look for messages related to the disk controller.
We need to collect as much information as possible. Just be aware that the fog project is limited on hardware support because of the linux kernel. That’s not a negative thing, its just FOG can’t clone where there isn’t a drive created yet in the Linux kernel. The info you collect here will allow us to monitor the linux project to see when they add support for this new NVME (SAS) disk (my words not what they are officially called just yet).
Also could you collect from the bios what this disk is called or a manufacturer part number (not dells)? That would help us back track into what that device is.
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lsblk :
Returned nothing
lspci -nn:00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2020] (rev 04) 00:04.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CBDMA Registers [8086:2021] (rev 04) 00:04.1 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CBDMA Registers [8086:2021] (rev 04) 00:04.2 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CBDMA Registers [8086:2021] (rev 04) 00:04.3 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CBDMA Registers [8086:2021] (rev 04) 00:04.4 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CBDMA Registers [8086:2021] (rev 04) 00:04.5 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CBDMA Registers [8086:2021] (rev 04) 00:04.6 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CBDMA Registers [8086:2021] (rev 04) 00:04.7 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CBDMA Registers [8086:2021] (rev 04) 00:05.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E MM/Vt-d Configuration Registers [8086:2024] (rev 04) 00:05.2 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2025] (rev 04) 00:05.4 PIC [0800]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2026] (rev 04) 00:08.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E Ubox Registers [8086:2014] (rev 04) 00:08.1 Performance counters [1101]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E Ubox Registers [8086:2015] (rev 04) 00:08.2 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E Ubox Registers [8086:2016] (rev 04) 00:14.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH USB 3.0 xHCI Controller [8086:a2af] 00:14.2 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH Thermal Subsystem [8086:a2b1] 00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH CSME HECI #1 [8086:a2ba] 00:17.0 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH SATA controller [AHCI mode] [8086:a282] 00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH PCI Express Root Port #1 [8086:a290] (rev f0) 00:1c.6 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH PCI Express Root Port #7 [8086:a296] (rev f0) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a2d3] 00:1f.2 Memory controller [0580]: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH PMC [8086:a2a1] 00:1f.3 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH HD Audio [8086:a2f0] 00:1f.4 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH SMBus Controller [8086:a2a3] 00:1f.6 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection (5) I219-LM [8086:15e3] 02:00.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Texas Instruments XIO2001 PCI Express-to-PCI Bridge [104c:8240] 16:05.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2034] (rev 04) 16:05.2 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E RAS Configuration Registers [8086:2035] (rev 04) 16:05.4 PIC [0800]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2036] (rev 04) 16:08.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CHA Registers [8086:208d] (rev 04) 16:08.1 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CHA Registers [8086:208d] (rev 04) 16:08.2 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CHA Registers [8086:208d] (rev 04) 16:08.3 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CHA Registers [8086:208d] (rev 04) 16:08.4 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CHA Registers [8086:208d] (rev 04) 16:08.5 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CHA Registers [8086:208d] (rev 04) 16:08.6 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CHA Registers [8086:208d] (rev 04) 16:08.7 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CHA Registers [8086:208d] (rev 04) 16:09.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CHA Registers [8086:208d] (rev 04) 16:09.1 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CHA Registers [8086:208d] (rev 04) 16:0e.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CHA Registers [8086:208e] (rev 04) 16:0e.1 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CHA Registers [8086:208e] (rev 04) 16:0e.2 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CHA Registers [8086:208e] (rev 04) 16:0e.3 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CHA Registers [8086:208e] (rev 04) 16:0e.4 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CHA Registers [8086:208e] (rev 04) 16:0e.5 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CHA Registers [8086:208e] (rev 04) 16:0e.6 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CHA Registers [8086:208e] (rev 04) 16:0e.7 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CHA Registers [8086:208e] (rev 04) 16:0f.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CHA Registers [8086:208e] (rev 04) 16:0f.1 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CHA Registers [8086:208e] (rev 04) 16:1d.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CHA Registers [8086:2054] (rev 04) 16:1d.1 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CHA Registers [8086:2055] (rev 04) 16:1d.2 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CHA Registers [8086:2056] (rev 04) 16:1d.3 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CHA Registers [8086:2057] (rev 04) 16:1e.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E PCU Registers [8086:2080] (rev 04) 16:1e.1 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E PCU Registers [8086:2081] (rev 04) 16:1e.2 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E PCU Registers [8086:2082] (rev 04) 16:1e.3 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E PCU Registers [8086:2083] (rev 04) 16:1e.4 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E PCU Registers [8086:2084] (rev 04) 16:1e.5 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E PCU Registers [8086:2085] (rev 04) 16:1e.6 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E PCU Registers [8086:2086] (rev 04) 64:00.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E PCI Express Root Port A [8086:2030] (rev 04) 64:05.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2034] (rev 04) 64:05.2 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E RAS Configuration Registers [8086:2035] (rev 04) 64:05.4 PIC [0800]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2036] (rev 04) 64:08.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2066] (rev 04) 64:09.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2066] (rev 04) 64:0a.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2040] (rev 04) 64:0a.1 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2041] (rev 04) 64:0a.2 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2042] (rev 04) 64:0a.3 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2043] (rev 04) 64:0a.4 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2044] (rev 04) 64:0a.5 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2045] (rev 04) 64:0a.6 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2046] (rev 04) 64:0a.7 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2047] (rev 04) 64:0b.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2048] (rev 04) 64:0b.1 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2049] (rev 04) 64:0b.2 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:204a] (rev 04) 64:0b.3 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:204b] (rev 04) 64:0c.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2040] (rev 04) 64:0c.1 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2041] (rev 04) 64:0c.2 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2042] (rev 04) 64:0c.3 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2043] (rev 04) 64:0c.4 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2044] (rev 04) 64:0c.5 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2045] (rev 04) 64:0c.6 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2046] (rev 04) 64:0c.7 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2047] (rev 04) 64:0d.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2048] (rev 04) 64:0d.1 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2049] (rev 04) 64:0d.2 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:204a] (rev 04) 64:0d.3 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:204b] (rev 04) 65:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GP107GL [Quadro P600] [10de:1cb2] (rev a1) 65:00.1 Audio device [0403]: NVIDIA Corporation GP107GL High Definition Audio Controller [10de:0fb9] (rev a1) b2:02.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E PCI Express Root Port C [8086:2032] (rev 04) b2:03.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E PCI Express Root Port D [8086:2033] (rev 04) b2:05.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2034] (rev 04) b2:05.2 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E RAS Configuration Registers [8086:2035] (rev 04) b2:05.4 PIC [0800]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2036] (rev 04) b2:12.0 Performance counters [1101]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E M3KTI Registers [8086:204c] (rev 04) b2:12.1 Performance counters [1101]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E M3KTI Registers [8086:204d] (rev 04) b2:12.2 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E M3KTI Registers [8086:204e] (rev 04) b2:15.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E M2PCI Registers [8086:2018] (rev 04) b2:16.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E M2PCI Registers [8086:2018] (rev 04) b2:16.4 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E M2PCI Registers [8086:2018] (rev 04) b2:17.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E M2PCI Registers [8086:2018] (rev 04)
The SSD is a NVMe SED Samsung 512GB. Its just an M2 in a fancy case.
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@breit said in Hard Drive, SSD, & M.2:
SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH SATA controller [AHCI mode] [8086:a282]
Well this tells me that you have the disk controller in ahci mode. If this is a standard m.2 nvme disk it should see it.
I assume that
fdisk -l
also returns nothing?Is this nvme disk behind a raid controller or something we are not expecting?
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I’m also wondering if we had you live boot a bleeding edge OS like fedora, can fedora see the disk in this system?
Can we assume that the disk is functional (yes I know its new)? We are missing something here…
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fdisk -l returns all the ram. no ssd.
Im not sure about the raid yet. I’m still looking into if there is one built in. There is no stand alone card as far as I can tell.
The disk is functional it has windows 10 pre installed which I am able to boot into.
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Integrated Intel AHCI SATA chipset controller (8x 6.0Gb/s), SW RAID 0,1,5,10
Looks like a software raid controller which all my current dells have.
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@breit I guess the next step here is for you to download fedora and “burn” to a flash drive. Boot it live (no install needed) then open a command window and do the
lsblk
bit. You should see the usb flash drive, but hopefully also the nvme drive.One other thought, I know you just purchased them, but is the firmware up to date.
Also if you put the device in legacy(bios) mode do we have any better luck with seeing the nvme disk.
Sorry about all of these random thoughts, but the issue has to be somewhere. So we need to find out where it isn’t to narrow it down to where it might be.
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@george1421 i appreciate the help the firmware is upto date. I will try fedora and get back to you. even with legacy mode same error message.
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I can confirm that Fedora does see the drive
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@breit Well on the plus side, we now know its possible to image that computer. The down side is understanding why is going to take a bit more time to decipher.
On your fog server, from a linux console change to /var/www/html/fog/service/ipxe directory. Then key in
file bzImage
this will tell us the version of the linux kernel you are sending to that target computer.Also under fedora if you could run the lspci command with this syntax
lspci -knn
This will list all pci devices with the linux kernel driver that talks to the hardware. Lastly if you could upload the file /var/log/messages to a google drive so I could review it, that would be handy.I would also like to see the /var/log/messages (or /var/log/syslog) from FOS booted in debug mode from this hardware too. This will allow us to compare what fedora is doing vs what FOS is doing during boot time regarding that hardware.
I’m pretty sure we can get this working for you, we just need to understand why is there a difference between fedora (with an older linux kernel) and FOS.