Insight Control 6.2 - Deploying Linux OS Image returns with "Invalid Partition" after reboot

[Steven Clementi]

Can anyone help here?

I have installed Insight Control 6.2 in order to capture and deploy Operating System images to my servers. I only installed the Server Deployment portion of Insight Control.

Things seem to work well up to when I try to reboot after deploying a captured linux image and I get "Invalid Partition" upon boot up.

Details:

Server in question: DL360 G7

Trying to capture the image using the Linux Managed pre-boot environment results in the disk not being found and the image file being only 5mb.

Using a WinPE pre-boot environment I can at lease see the image file being written and the result is @500mb.

Trying to deploy the linux image using the LinuxPE Managed pre-boot environment exits with an error regarding the disk. I assume that it can not see the hard drive at this point.

Using the WinPE pre-boot environment, the image gets deployed, but upon reboot, I get the "Invalid Partition" and the OS does not load.


Anyone seen this and/or can help?


Stetven

[shocko]

Have you got the appropriate Linux/WinpE drivers installed to access the traget servers hadr disks? i.e. can you boot into the automation enviroments and access the disks directly to verify?

[Steven Clementi]

"Have you got the appropriate Linux/WinpE drivers installed to access the traget servers hadr disks? i.e. can you boot into the automation enviroments and access the disks directly to verify?"

Drivers were one thing I was thinking about. It "see's" the disk when boot to WinPE, but not to LinuxPE.

I'll be at it today again and will see if I can manually "see" anything while booted into a LinuxPE session.

How would I go about adding drivers to the LinuxPE boot image? Specificly for the P410i?

It worked just fine on an older DL360 (G4p) (different/older smart array controller).


Steven

[Steven Clementi]

Ok, so I found out that the 4GB SD card I have in these servers was causing an issue.

I removed the card and tried re-captuing the OS using LinuxPE. That seemed to have work.

When deploying the image, I had to disable the SD card as well, but I still get the Invalid Partition after re-boot.

Looking for more suggestions.


Steven

[Steven Clementi]

Dilemma solved. The original image was built while the SD card was in the slot and such... the /boot partition was stored there.

I removed the card, rebuilt the OS, re-captured the image, re-deployed the image....now everything was sitting on the local hard disks... and it boots fine.


Steven

[shocko]

Ah, so you had captured an image that inckuded the SD card "drive" and ehnce when it wasn't present on another system you couldn't deploy?

[Steven Clementi]

"Ah, so you had captured an image that inckuded the SD card "drive" and ehnce when it wasn't present on another system you couldn't deploy?"

Maybe/Not exactly.

The card was present initially, but then I disabled the USB to get rid of the card during deployment as a test. Both ways resulted in the same condition. It either did not capture what was on the SD card... or could not deploy to the SD card.

I did not do extra tests to see which it was, as soon as I realized the issue I just rebuilt the system without the SD card to get a deployable image. I did not have time to play around on this project... unfortunately.


Steven

[shocko]

;) I know that pain steven!