On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:12:33AM -0200, Itamar Reis Peixoto wrote: >> I am trying to automate the deployment of windows7 + fedora using >> anaconda / kickstart ( 100+ machines ) >> >> in %pre section of anaconda kickstart I do this. >> >> wget --no-proxy -qO - http://192.168.7.254/itamar/web/windows7.img.gz >> | gunzip -c | dd of=/dev/sda1 bs=64k >> ntfsresize -f /dev/sda1 <<< y >> >> the image is restored well , but windows doesnt boot, -> > > With any particular error message? > > In any case the most likely problem is that you can't just unpack a > Windows disk image into a partition and expect it to work. You have > to adjust a few bytes in the NTFS header to make it work, as > virt-resize does: > > https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/master/resize/resize.ml#L1048 > > The gory details are here: > > http://thestarman.pcministry.com/asm/mbr/NTFSBR.htm > > Rich. the error message is status: 0xc000000e info: the boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible. can you help to strip out the code to run it standalone ? ( I am not a developer ) fo = open("/dev/sda1","r") fo.seek(3) str = fo.read(4) print "Read String is |", str,"|" fo.close() after running it returns -> Read String is | NTFS | ------------ Itamar Reis Peixoto msn, google talk: itamar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
