Posts made by JJ Fullmer

Wasn’t able to boot to a live cd just yet but I tried some other stuff.

I tried changing the primary hard disk to /dev/nvme0
because I figure that may be the new /dev/sda
When I tried to image the computer I got a new error

“Erasing Current MBR/GPT Tables… The specified path is a character device!
Warning! GPT Main header not overwritten! Error is 22
Warning! MBR not overwritten! Error is 29
Corrupted partition table was erased. Everything should be fine now”

It does still get through the hardware inventory, but in either case it doesn’t pull and hard disk information.
I’m going to try /dev/nvme next to see if that works.

I also tried changing the bios sata disk mode from RAID to AHCI, but I don’t know if that effects anything on an nvme drive since it’s plugged into pci-express.

Thanks for all the help thus far.

-JJ

I am also trying the linux live cd idea to see if it gets anything different and maybe if there’s a way to change it to something more standard

@george1421
Yes that’s how I got the hardware inventory to run without error.
But that doesn’t work for imaging. It acts likes it’s going to work, filling partitions and what not, then it just says database updated and reboots like it was finished instead of launching into partclone.

It was getting a different device name /dev/nvme0n1 to be exact
I was able to get it to run hardware inventory,
just had to manually add it to the hosts in the fog web console and set the primary hard disk to that.
I found that information with the fog compatibility menu option under partition information.
It worked for running the hardware inventory but it is not working for imaging the computer unfortunately.

Hi Friends,

We just got these new Z640 workstations and they come with these NVME 256GB SSDs plugged into a pci-e slot.
They show up in the bios, and when I boot to fog and check compatibility and partition information it says it’s compatible and all the partition info pops up no problem. One possible issue is that it assigns it to something like /dev/nvme instead of the standard /dev/sda

But then when I try to image or even just do a hardware inventory, FOG gives me a “HDD not found on system” error and then reboots after 1 minute.

Is this something that just isn’t supported? Do I need to enable something in a custom kernel? What am I missing here?

Thanks,
-JJ

P.S.
Fog info
Version svn 5676
bzImage Version: 4.3.0
bzImage32 Version: 4.3.0