Description Moritz Muehlenhoff 2014-05-15 16:03:59 CEST

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #33460 +++

It happened during an UCC desktop roll out on a virtual machine.

The first roll out attempt the HD space was not enough, so the roll out failed and I increased the size of the virtual disk.

All following attempts, the roll out will fail:

      "The boot failed. Please contact your system administrator.
      Add debugshell=y to the boot parameters to get a debug shell.
      Press enter to reboot!"

*Reason:
Since a GPT partition was already created the first time, and the disk sized changed after that (moving the GPT header), 'parted' will fail to create the partitions (even when forced) with the following message:

        "Not all of the space available to /dev/sda appears to be used, you can fix the GPT to use all of the space (an extra X blocks) or continue with the current setting?"


*Solution:
(http://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7006405)
**add 'debugshell=yes' as an "Additional boot parameter" in UMC
and once you have a shell:
**Get 'parted' to report the error again:
# parted -l
Warning: Not all of the space available to /dev/sda appears to be used, you can fix the GPT to use all of the space (an extra X blocks) or continue with the current setting?
Fix/Ignore
**Write "FIX" and press 'Enter' key

Try the roll out again.