Package: fai-server
Version: 3.3.3+experimental1
Severity: wishlist
Hello,
On the fai mailinglist you will find a thread (Error: Error initialising SCSI
device /dev/sda - Invalid argument) where I was having problems partitioning a
disk device inside a XenU.
Below is the information the let it work. With this fix you can setup disks
inside a xenu. The only caveat is that you need to pass your disk as a xvd
device to the xenu.
The problem doesn't lie in the fact that parted is not able to partition the
disk, but that I mustn't pass sda but xvda to my domU. I could not find this in
the XEN documentation.
When I put
disk = ["phy:disk/by-vfiler/vfass9/sysdisks1/rudy_test,xvda,w"]
in my xenu config the block device /dev/xvda appears in the virtual machine.
Unfortunately fai isn't able to do any partitioning because it doesn't see
/dev/xvda as a valid device!
By changing
/usr/share/fai/setup-storage/Init.pm (line 179):
if ($dev =~ m{^/dev/(i2o/hd[a-t]|sd[a-t]{1,2}|hd[a-t]|vd[a-t]|xvd[a-t])(\d+)?$})
/usr/lib/fai/disk-info (last line):
egrep ' etherd/e[[:digit:]]+\.[[:digit:]]+\b| i2o/hd.\b| cciss/c.d.\b|
ida/c.d.\b| rd/c.d.\b| hd.\b| sd[a-z]{1,2}\b|/disc\b| vd.\b| xvd[a-z]{1,2}\b'
/proc/partitions | diskandsize
FAI detects the xvd device(s) and makes them disks. I can now even use disk1
in my disk_config file
I would like to see my little change accepted upstream.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.3
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (990, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages fai-server depends on:
ii debootstrap 1.0.10lenny1 Bootstrap a basic Debian system
ii fai-client 3.3.3+experimental1 Fully Automatic Installation clien
Versions of packages fai-server recommends:
ii dhcp3-server 3.1.1-6+lenny3 DHCP server for automatic IP addre
ii iproute 20080725-2 networking and traffic control too
ii nfs-kernel-server 1:1.1.2-6lenny1 support for NFS kernel server
ii openssh-client 1:5.1p1-5 secure shell client, an rlogin/rsh
ii openssh-server 1:5.1p1-5 secure shell server, an rshd repla
ii syslinux-common 2:3.71+dfsg-5 Kernel loader which uses a FAT, ex
ii tftpd-hpa 0.48-2.3 HPA's tftp server
ii xinetd [inet-superserver 1:2.3.14-7 replacement for inetd with many en
Versions of packages fai-server suggests:
ii apt-move 4.2.27-1+b4 Maintain Debian packages in a pack
ii aptitude 0.4.11.11-1~lenny1 terminal-based package manager
pn debmirror <none> (no description available)
ii genisoimage 9:1.1.9-1 Creates ISO-9660 CD-ROM filesystem
ii grub 0.97-47lenny2 GRand Unified Bootloader (Legacy v
pn libproc-daemon-perl <none> (no description available)
pn perl-tk <none> (no description available)
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