Novell ZENworks Linux Management Imaging Agent adding IP and hostname to an area on the disk, leading to corruption of partition table on EFI boot System
Issue
- System faces kernel panic after rebooting
- Not able to enter rescue mode
- fdisk output from rescue shell shows one GPT partition available, but no other partition detected.
- Running parted command in rescue command detects all the right partitions. Thereafter rebooting system comes up normal.
# parted /dev/<disk-N>
> print
Disk /dev/sda: 146GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 1049kB 211MB 210MB fat16 boot
2 211MB 345MB 134MB ext4
3 345MB 146GB 146GB lvm
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- IBM server
- EFI boot
- Novell ZENworks Linux Management Imaging Agent (novel-zislnx)
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