Posts made by Michael Nydegger

Hi madeyem

Cool. It’s great if this solution works for you as well.

Michael

Hi everyone

I solved a problem with fog and want to share it. I needed some time and hope someone else can save that time.

[B]problem description[/B]
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[]Start uploading an image (Windows 7 on a Fujitsu Siemens Celsius W410)
[]It comes to the normal routine just before the screen with the blue background and the copying of “/dev/sda”
[]Instead it says: “Task complete” and fog ends.
[]The web interface means the task is finished. There is no Active Task
[]On the share, just the file with the MBR (d1.mbr) is present
[]No image, no cloning
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[B]researching[/B]
I’ve found the hint to look at the Partition Information.
At the FOG-PXE-Start-Screen chose: Client System Information wählen -> Partition Information
It says something about GPT ([url]http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table[/url]). GPT replaces the MBR. Its relevant when the computer has UEFI (replacement of BIOS). I had this problem just on the newest computer in our school.
Removing the GPT information will solve it.

[B]solution[/B]
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[][B]IMPORTANT: First of all create a backup of your harddisk because the following commands are risky. Copy it one-by-one with Acronis, Ghost or other tools to another Harddrive.[/B]
[]The software is called “fixparts”: [url]http://www.rodsbooks.com/fixparts/[/url] -> I reccomend to read this page. Otherwise you don’t know, what you are doing exactly and what the risks are.
[]Download systemrescueCD ([url]http://www.sysresccd.org/Download[/url]) burn it on a DVD or create a bootable USB-Stick
[]Unfortunately the command “sfdisk -d /dev/sdc > parts.txt” didn’t work. It means the MBR isn’t backuped. But I had a backup of the whole harddisk. So it’s no that dangerous
[]type in: [I]fixparts /dev/sda[/I]
[]confirm the following message with “yes” if you really want it. -> Did you create a Backup?
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[INDENT=2][I]FixParts 0.8.5[/I]

[I]Loading MBR data from /dev/sda[/I]

[I]NOTICE: GPT signatures detected on the disk, but no 0xEE protective partition![/I]
[I]The GPT signatures are probably left over from a previous partition table.[/I]
[I]Do you want to delete them (if you answer ‘Y’, this will happen[/I]
[I]immediately)? (Y/N): y[/I]
[I]Erasing GPT data![/I][/INDENT]

Now restart your computer and check if windows starts. When everything is right retry uploading an image.

I hope this information helps someone in the world wide “cloud”.

Greetings from Switzerland
Michael