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authorGiulio Fidente <gfidente@redhat.com>2018-08-08 12:16:19 +0200
committerGiulio Fidente <gfidente@redhat.com>2018-08-08 16:40:22 +0000
commitbc21b5b1404c269d000e1de6f9dce9c046f7d15d (patch)
treea0277635fce436eae997ebd96e820810ddf9f92b /ironic_python_agent/shell
parent667589bb007e144e37136e706c0b8196422b0344 (diff)
downloadironic-python-agent-bc21b5b1404c269d000e1de6f9dce9c046f7d15d.tar.gz
Clear GPT and MBR headers with dd to avoid sgdisk CRC errors
This change adds a dd before the existing sgdisk -Z command to workaround CRC verification errors. Change-Id: Ia1ac4e1c0faf14ad4bb11c2a1c796c93ca8cb5e3 Closes-Bug: #1737556 Story: 1737556 Task: 11496
Diffstat (limited to 'ironic_python_agent/shell')
-rwxr-xr-xironic_python_agent/shell/write_image.sh8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/ironic_python_agent/shell/write_image.sh b/ironic_python_agent/shell/write_image.sh
index 165d7176..0a780490 100755
--- a/ironic_python_agent/shell/write_image.sh
+++ b/ironic_python_agent/shell/write_image.sh
@@ -36,7 +36,13 @@ DEVICE="$2"
# In production this will be replaced with secure erasing the drives
# For now we need to ensure there aren't any old (GPT) partitions on the drive
log "Erasing existing GPT and MBR data structures from ${DEVICE}"
-sgdisk -Z $DEVICE || sgdisk -o $DEVICE
+
+# NOTE(gfidente): GPT uses 33*512 sectors, this is an attempt to avoid bug:
+# https://bugs.launchpad.net/ironic-python-agent/+bug/1737556
+DEVICE_SECTORS_COUNT=`blockdev --getsz $DEVICE`
+dd bs=512 if=/dev/zero of=$DEVICE count=33
+dd bs=512 if=/dev/zero of=$DEVICE count=33 seek=$((${DEVICE_SECTORS_COUNT} - 33))
+sgdisk -Z $DEVICE
log "Imaging $IMAGEFILE to $DEVICE"