Lsblk: /dev/sda?: not a block device

[Tom Elliott]

sgennadi,

I guess I don’t know how to explain this so you understand.

If I clear the drive, before the system has even had a chance to start up, there’s a high chance your systems would lose data.

This is the first time I’ve ever heard of a hard drive having a “bad” mbr that FOG couldn’t at least continue on. As it’s the first (and I’m sure it’s only been reported this first time), i’m not going to change it.

If you knew your hard drive had a bad mbr written to it before imaging, then why would you think fog was just going to fix this for you?

Again:

If I clear the MBR/HDD and it still can’t initialize the drive, there’s a huge potential for Data Loss. Once FOG knows it can use the drive safely, it will go through and clear the tables and present them back as the image needs it to. But during that initial start up I don’t think this is a good or safe option.

[sgennadi]

Tom,
I understand you very well and I said you right this is not bug , can I ask you future request? Can you do in fog menu something like quick image advanced where you script check computer compatibility if problem found not exit with error code, but give to the user option to fix problem (or try to fix problem automatically) and re-run check ?

[Maurice Tift]

[SIZE=5][B][FONT=Trebuchet MS][FONT=Tahoma]lsblk: /dev/sda?: not a block device[/FONT]
[FONT=Tahoma]Error: Could not stat device mklabel -No such file or directory[/FONT][/FONT][/B][/SIZE]

I get that message all the time with the current revision - images do not restore and it’s impossible to register a new host.

[Tom Elliott]

Does this only happen on specific devices?

I ask because I’ve been testing imaging since working on many different changes. I haven’t seen this pop up.

[Maurice Tift]

I got it on a Toshiba Satellite notebook: M305D-S4830, an older computer with a K8T Neo-V MSI mainboard and a VirtualBox virtual machine.

[Maurice Tift]

just tried it with a new hard drive (on the old MSI computer) and the update from a few minutes ago - same /dev/sda? error

[Tom Elliott]

please update and try again, does the error still occur?

[Maurice Tift]

This time after updating…

trying to register older MSI computer with new hard drive connected to SATA (configured as SATA and not RAID)

Error: could not stat device mklabel - No such file or directory

** An error has been detected **

Failed to initialize disk

** Computer will reboot in 1 minute **

[Wayne Workman]

when you say “new hard drive”, do you mean a blank one? Or just a “newer” one that has some partitions on it ?

[Maurice Tift]

[quote=“Wayne Workman, post: 46765, member: 28155”]when you say “new hard drive”, do you mean a blank one? Or just a “newer” one that has some partitions on it ?[/quote]

It’s actually new and blank with no partitions or data

[Maurice Tift]

After a quick FAT32 format, the system seems to work. I formatted the blank drive and was able to register the host and deploy Windows 7 to the hard drive. It also registers the host when the drive is formatted for Linux.

[Wayne Workman]

Are you using 1.2.0 ??

[Maurice Tift]

[quote=“Wayne Workman, post: 46802, member: 28155”]Are you using 1.2.0 ??[/quote]

Yes - 1.2.0 revision 3356 - using Debian 7.8.0

[Wayne Workman]

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[Wayne Workman]

Then this is probably a Tom question.

I know he’s been doing A LOT of work with how HDDs are handled lately.

[need2]

Just ran into this too. Giving it a poke.

EDIT:
The drive had Windows 10 on it before, and it worked. After running a fast wipe through FOG, I could no longer get any tasks to work (same error as above). More fiddling inbound.