Hay Sebastian.
I think your theory on the bios clock is probably correct. Most of the laptops have been in storage for over a year. Once they started working, they had been plugged into network and power for a bit. I’ll take a look Monday at the other recommendations.
@wayne-workman
im willing to call this resolved given that it seems to have been a time sync issue.
@wayne-workman
im willing to call this resolved given that it seems to have been a time sync issue.
Hay Sebastian.
I think your theory on the bios clock is probably correct. Most of the laptops have been in storage for over a year. Once they started working, they had been plugged into network and power for a bit. I’ll take a look Monday at the other recommendations.
@sebastian-roth thanks
So after that one went through, everything seemed to start working fine again. Unfortunately, as its the weekend, its in a state at my office desk where I don’t trust it. I’m working this weekend on some other projects with my home lab. Let me know if you think of anything.
So, A funny thing (not really funny as much as annoying) has started happening. I have thrown the same laptop (Thinkpad L450) now at the fog server 5 times. All 5 times resulted in failure at the resizing sda2 partition.
For the purposes of sheer insanity, I threw it at the fog server one more time expecting the exact same results. Unfortunately (or fortunately, still not sure) With that one laptop, it worked.
This whole thing seems to be hit or miss all of the sudden. When I had this setup in my home lab (minus the lenovo laptops, I was using vm’s and desktops instead)
Update, running chckdsk scans did not solve anything.
im now at a point where i can get like one in 10 to image correctly, but its a different laptop every time. Worst part, nothing has changed.
There doesnt seem to be any reason that the ones that work do and the ones that don’t don’t. But this is not a good solution.
@sebastian-roth it does look similar. But unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be a solution. I will try running chkdsk on the gold and issuing a capture to see if that helps. Unfortunately my entire project is on hold till I can get this resolved
Minimum partitions file
d1.minimum.partitions
label: gpt
label-id: 5FC6A4FE-C9B9-48D1-85A1-04B915E5FD78
device: /dev/sda
unit: sectors
first-lba: 34
last-lba: 976773134
sector-size: 512
/dev/sda1 : start= 2048, size= 1048576, type=C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B, uuid=992E52CA-4E96-4DB0-813D-769534D59A54, name="EFI System Partition"
/dev/sda2 : start= 1050624, size= 23333108, type=0FC63DAF-8483-4772-8E79-3D69D8477DE4, uuid=D884B35F-887F-4265-B910-8F3FAD6D44DA
D1 partitions
d1.partitions
label: gpt
label-id: 5FC6A4FE-C9B9-48D1-85A1-04B915E5FD78
device: /dev/sda
unit: sectors
first-lba: 34
last-lba: 976773134
sector-size: 512
/dev/sda1 : start= 2048, size= 1048576, type=C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B, uuid=992E52CA-4E96-4DB0-813D-769534D59A54, name="EFI System Partition"
/dev/sda2 : start= 1050624, size= 975720448, type=0FC63DAF-8483-4772-8E79-3D69D8477DE4, uuid=D884B35F-887F-4265-B910-8F3FAD6D44DA
D1 Fixed_size
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Ok, so continuing on with this. It might be me being an idiot and things not quite working the way i think they do. The issue seems to be deploying to “Dis similar” hardware. if i deploy to like hardware, everything is fine. Given that its ubuntu, this still doesnt really make sense.
EDIT
NOPE That wasnt it. Just had a l450 fail as well in the exact same ways the x250 was failing
EDIT AGAIN
Finally had the bright idea to remove the internet cable after imaging and try just booting. it works, but the resizing is not happening, im having to boot manually into a usb stick with gparted on it and manually resize after install. for obvious reasons, this is not a good solution.
This could be any number of issues. What is your network environment? what boot file are you using? without knowing about the full net stack your running its a bit more difficult to troubleshoot.
Also knowing what hardware your trying to deploy to would be a huge help.
@sebastian-roth And my issues are back
Below is all the images requested.