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jehara
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Jul 01, 2022
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Deploying D4IoT Sensor to ThinkEdge SE40 - No Root Filesystem

Hi all,   I'm in the process of setting up a POC with D4IoT to showcase to our partners.  Unfortunately I've been having trouble installing directly on a Thinkedge SE40. When trying to install (1...
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    jehara
    Jul 11, 2022

    In case somebody else runs in to this problem I managed to find a solution in the end.

    Basically, the problem is that when you boot from the installation USB media, it names the installation media sda and the internal harddrive sdb in /dev. This properly wouldn’t be the case if you installed from an optical media like AdiWeisberg suggested – but I didn't have access to one and I must admit it's a decade since i've used an optical disk for installation.

    So the seed files for autopartitioning only looks for sda and not sdb.
    So, by changing line 6 in the seed file corresponding to the solution you want to install (in my case the 100 GB solution, named: preseed/laptop-storage-layout.seed) from /dev/sda to /dev/sdb it installs fine.

     

    Edit:

    Line 107 in preseed/general.seed should be corrected from /dev/sda to /dev/sdb as well. Else it will install the bootsector on the installation media instead of the installation drive. So when you remove the installation media it won't boot as i just figured out 😉

    Hope this can help somebody else.

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jehara
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Jul 04, 2022

Hi AdiWeisberg,

 

Yes and I also tried the smaller architectures and even the bigger ones.

It works fine when I install it in a VM.

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AdiWeisberg
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Jul 04, 2022
Are you using USB or portable DVD for the installation? I suggest using a portable DVD. and starting over per the defined steps. you can raise a technical support ticket via the azure portal in case your installation keeps failing. support will help with the troubleshooting.
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    jehara
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    Jul 05, 2022
    Ok, I'll raise a technical support ticket in Azure Portal.
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      AdiWeisberg
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      Jul 05, 2022

      jehara please also make sure Bios is in LEGACY and not EUFI

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        jehara
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        Jul 06, 2022
        Hi Adi,
        Thank you for your suggestion.
        It's not even possible to boot the installation media if it's in UEFI - So that was the first few lessons I learned. But unfortunately that's not the issue here.

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