FOG restore only one partition

plegrand

@Wayne-Workman
I saw on the wiki that there is 4 partition types :
Single Partition
Multiple Partition - Single Disk
Multiple Partition - All Disks
Raw Image

On the web frontend
Single Disk - Resizable - (1)
Multiple Partition Image - Single Disk (Not Resizable) - (2)
Multiple Partition Image - All Disks (Not Resizable) - (3)
Raw Image (Sector By Sector, DD, Slow) - (4)

As you can see the first option is different.
Then may be i would choose “Multiple Partition - Single Disk”
And it’s, may be, for this reason it failed now ?

plegrand

@Tom-Elliott
Then do you think i have to restore manually my station or it will be possible from fog ?

Tom Elliott

@plegrand Try changing the OS type to Windows 10.

plegrand

@Tom-Elliott
As i said before, i already done that without success

Tom Elliott

@plegrand Can you try with it set back as XP? I don’t see that being retested.

plegrand

@Tom-Elliott
I made the test with windows xp type on 6209 version : partclone “tell” me that “This is not a partclone image”.
Not the same error as yesterday with other version (6194)

plegrand

@Tom-Elliott Same problem with 6211

plegrand

@Tom-Elliott
I just made the test today with 6237 version. Same problem : partclone “tell” me that “This is not a partclone image”.
Do you think there is a solution to restore image from fog or do i have to reinstall the station ?

Tom Elliott

@plegrand there can be a solution but I have to figure out what that solution will be.

plegrand

@Tom-Elliott
for the moment i reinstalled the station and i continu my tests. I’ve got one question :

I saw on the wiki that there is 4 images types :

Single Partition
Multiple Partition - Single Disk
Multiple Partition - All Disks
Raw Image

On the web frontend
Single Disk - Resizable - (1)
Multiple Partition Image - Single Disk (Not Resizable) - (2)
Multiple Partition Image - All Disks (Not Resizable) - (3)
Raw Image (Sector By Sector, DD, Slow) - (4)

As you can see the first option is different.
What is the good one
Is it single disk or single partition ?

And finally, instead opening a new thread, i’ve got a last question :
all my host have a red circle with exclamation point and this error message :
“no such device or address”. What does that mean ?

Thanks for your help

plegrand

@Tom-Elliott
Hello
i just made a test today with an other station
Dell Optiplex 760 with again 3 partitions
Here is the image definition :
default: Windows 2000/XP
Single Disk - Resizable
Everything

The capture seems to works fine and i can see in the “images” directory :

ls -al /home/images/Optiplex760780/
total 8355044
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 févr. 23 10:09 .
drwxrwxrwx 7 root root 4096 févr. 23 10:09 …
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 févr. 23 09:44 d1.fixed_size_partitions
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 249 févr. 23 09:49 d1.minimum.partitions
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 févr. 23 09:49 d1.original.fstypes
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 févr. 23 09:44 d1.original.swapuuids
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3706587 févr. 23 09:49 d1p1.img
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8551432512 févr. 23 10:09 d1p2.img
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 392584 févr. 23 10:09 d1p3.img
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 249 févr. 23 09:44 d1.partitions

But when i try to deploy this image on the same station i’ve got again this error message at the beginning :
“This is not a partclone image”

Now the station is “dead” and cant boot “Error loading operating system”

It’s a real problem because we have a lot of this kind of station

Tom Elliott

I just added some more code and I think I finally found the problem.

plegrand

@Tom-Elliott Hello
does that mean that with the latest version it will work ?
Do you want i try ?
Thanks for your help

Sebastian Roth

@plegrand Yes, would be great if you can upgrade to the latest version and see if it’s fixed. Please report back!

plegrand

@Sebastian-Roth
i have to capture again before deploy ?

Just to be clearer, here is my configuration :

On my own pxe server(dhcp and tftp) 192.168.151.247
dhcp is configured like that :

 next-server 192.168.151.247;
 filename "pxelinux.0";

then on my tftp server i’ve got pxelinux.0 into the tftp root directory
and
this configuration

LABEL FOG_ETUDIANTS
KERNEL fog/ipxe.krn dhcp && chain http://192.168.39.243/fog/service/ipxe/boot.php?mac=${net0/mac}

192.168.39.243 is the fog ip address
Do i have to put on my tftp server the new ipxe.krn file ?

Tom Elliott

@plegrand you should not have to re upload the image.

plegrand

@Tom-Elliott Hello
Fog 6427 / 4874

here is the tests i made

Restore the station with an old symantec ghost image
List partitions with diskpart

DISKPART> list disk
 Disque ###  Statut      Taille     Libre     Dyn  Gpt
 --------  ---------  -----------  --------   ---  ---
 Disque 0    Connecté     149 GB      0 B

 DISKPART> select disk 0
 Le disque 0 est maintenant le disque sélectionné.

 DISKPART> list partition
 Partition ###  Type              Taille     Décalage
 -------------  ----------------  -------  -----------
 Partition 1    OEM                126 MB    20 KB
 Partition 2    Principale          49 GB   126 MB
 Partition 3    Principale         100 GB    49 GB

Defragmentation of all the partition
On fog create a image :

	default: Windows 2000/XP
	Single Disk - Resizable
	Everything

Assign the new image to the host
On fog create a new capture task for the station as a debug task
Launch the task
Capture works fine
On the server fog :

	d1.fixed_size_partitions
	d1.minimum.partitions
	d1.original.fstypes
	d1.original.swapuuids
	d1p1.img
	d1p2.img
	d1p3.img
	d1.partitions

	cat d1.fixed_size_partitions 
	1:

	cat d1.minimum.partitions 
	label: dos
	label-id: 0x2bd2c32a
	device: /dev/sda
	unit: sectors

	/dev/sda1 : start=          40, size=      257480, type=de
	/dev/sda2 : start=      257520, size=    31386360, type=7, bootable
	/dev/sda3 : start=   102657680, size=      779520, type=7

	cat d1.original.fstypes 
	/dev/sda2 ntfs
	/dev/sda3 ntfs

	cat d1.partitions 
	label: dos
	label-id: 0x2bd2c32a
	device: /dev/sda
	unit: sectors

	/dev/sda1 : start=          40, size=      257480, type=de
	/dev/sda2 : start=      257520, size=   102400160, type=7, bootable
	/dev/sda3 : start=   102657680, size=   209839360, type=7

At reboot, the station stay displaying “Booting…”

Then i try to deploy the image

Create a new deploy task for the host

During the restauration of /dev/sda1, i’ve got the following error message from partclone

Target partition size (132MB) is smaller than source 132 MB. 
Use option -C to disable size checking (Dangerous)

And just after

Image failed to restore and exited with exit code 0 (writeImage)
Args passed /images/test/d1p1 img* /dev/sda1

Then the only solution is to redeploy the old ghost image

Tom Elliott

@plegrand have you tried after updating to the latest.

plegrand

@Tom-Elliott
no
do i have to capture again or just deploy ?

plegrand

@Tom-Elliott hello
i just made the following test with latest version : 6476 / 4895
just create deploy task
same problem

After upgrade, Do i have to put on my own tftp server the new ipxe.krn file ?

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