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    XCP-ng 8.3 public alpha 🚀

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    • jhansenJ Offline
      jhansen @olivierlambert
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      @olivierlambert
      Sorry I miss one line:
      └─sda1 8:1 0 3.5G 0 part /

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      • olivierlambertO Offline
        olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
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        You should have 2x 18G partitions (/ and a backup one), 1x 4G partition (/var/log) and a 512MB partition (/boot)

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        • jhansenJ Offline
          jhansen @olivierlambert
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          @olivierlambert
          My
          Boot has 537MB
          / has 3757MB
          Backup 4294MB

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          • olivierlambertO Offline
            olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
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            Okay so this is the old partition scheme. Can you repeat exactly what did you do with this machine? I mean initially. I don't know how to even get the old partition scheme in the first place with XCP-ng (there's 0 edition of XCP-ng with this old partition scheme, it's only before XenServer 6.5)

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            • jhansenJ Offline
              jhansen @olivierlambert
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              @olivierlambert
              I disable all hard drives and put in a new sda and do a fresh installation.
              So I can always go back if something doesn't work out.
              In any case, thanks for the help.
              Regards Joerg

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              • olivierlambertO Offline
                olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
                last edited by

                That's really weird, I don't understand how it's possible to install a fresh XCP-ng (without doing any upgrade) with the old partition layout 🤔

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                • jhansenJ Offline
                  jhansen @olivierlambert
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                  @olivierlambert
                  Neither do I.
                  I thought I might have taken an old SSD, but that wasn't the case, the part was new.
                  Well, sometimes you lose and sometimes the others win.
                  Fresh installation 😧
                  But thanks anyway

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                  • olivierlambertO Offline
                    olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
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                    Adding @yann in the conversation, so we need to check if it's even possible the old layout could be created in the installer code.

                    Did you use the regular installation or something else? (answer file, automated install etc.)

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                    • tjkreidlT Offline
                      tjkreidl Ambassador @jhansen
                      last edited by tjkreidl

                      @jhansen I'd suggest booting off some Linux rescue disk and just redoing all the partitions manually. I ran into an upgrade issue once on a Dell box because of some stupid little extra utility partition they had in there. See: http://xenserver.pl/author/tobias-kreidl
                      Look for "The (In)famous Dell Utility Partition."

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                      • jhansenJ Offline
                        jhansen @olivierlambert
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                        @olivierlambert
                        Unfortunately, I only keep the latest version of the iso files. I have the xcp-ng-8.2.1.iso here and I think that was it, but it could also have been the previous version.

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                        • tjkreidlT Offline
                          tjkreidl Ambassador @jhansen
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                          @jhansen Any old Linux distribution recovery-like boot disk should work, as long as you can get to the partitioning app.

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                          • jhansenJ Offline
                            jhansen @tjkreidl
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                            @tjkreidl
                            Mayby you are on the right trace.
                            It is a Dell Server.
                            This time i will wipe the disk before installation.
                            As the Data is on other disk i will try to mount then afterwards.
                            Thanks

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                            • jhansenJ Offline
                              jhansen @tjkreidl
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                              @tjkreidl
                              Do you think a simple reseize of the different partition will do it?

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                              • tjkreidlT Offline
                                tjkreidl Ambassador @jhansen
                                last edited by tjkreidl

                                @jhansen said in XCP-ng 8.3 public alpha 🚀:

                                @tjkreidl
                                Mayby you are on the right trace.
                                It is a Dell Server.
                                This time i will wipe the disk before installation.
                                As the Data is on other disk i will try to mount then afterwards.
                                Thanks

                                I am willing to bet you got bitten by the Dell utility partition disk issue. And, yes, best to wipe it out. Or delete it and redo one of the other partitions. But frankly, you will really want the new 36.5 GB total layout with the dual 18GB partitions, etc., that was mentioned above. You will want the right order of partitions to match what the XCP-ng installation wants to do at some point, but it should redo the layout I hope once you get rid of that extra Dell partition. Check out what I did in my article referenced above:
                                "The solution was simply to delete that sda1 partition altogether using fdisk and re-install. Deleting the partition can be performed live on the host prior to the installation process."

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                                • jhansenJ Offline
                                  jhansen @tjkreidl
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                                  @tjkreidl
                                  Naturally partition and filesystem.

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                                  • jhansenJ Offline
                                    jhansen @tjkreidl
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                                    @tjkreidl
                                    Just got an idea, but will it work?
                                    wipe disk
                                    Fresh installation
                                    Restore Metadata from XO Backup
                                    Will that work?

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                                    • tjkreidlT Offline
                                      tjkreidl Ambassador @jhansen
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                                      @jhansen If you have the full metadata, I would think that's possible. What about any VM backups, custom network settings, etc.? Lots to make sure you have before anything that drastic.

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                                      • jhansenJ Offline
                                        jhansen @tjkreidl
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                                        @tjkreidl
                                        Although it's my test lab, I have a backup of everything. I'm something of a burned child with many years of bad experience.
                                        Unfortunately it would take a few days to play everything back.
                                        But I'll get a new SSD and give it a try.
                                        But first thanks for the help, I'll write if it worked.
                                        Regards Joerg

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                                        • gskgerG Offline
                                          gskger Top contributor @stormi
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                                          @stormi Finally updated my two host playlab from 8.2.0 fully patched to 8.3.0-alpha2 using the ISO method followed by installing available patches using XO from source.

                                          As boring as it is, I have nothing to report other than that the update of my low-tech hosts has worked (Dell Optiplex 9010, Intel i5-3550 CPU, 32GB RAM, Intel S3700 100GB SSD for boot, Samsung 860 EVO 500GB SSD for local SR, Intel X520-DA1 10G). You wouldn't believe it, but sometimes boring is good 😀 .

                                          I'll report back if anything comes up in day-to-day operations 👋 .

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                                          • tjkreidlT Offline
                                            tjkreidl Ambassador @jhansen
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                                            @jhansen said in XCP-ng 8.3 public alpha 🚀:

                                            @tjkreidl
                                            Although it's my test lab, I have a backup of everything. I'm something of a burned child with many years of bad experience.
                                            Unfortunately it would take a few days to play everything back.
                                            But I'll get a new SSD and give it a try.
                                            But first thanks for the help, I'll write if it worked.
                                            Regards Joerg

                                            Sounds good, Joerg. Good luck!

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