Ghost Solution Suite

Hi,

Im working on our windows 7 deployment. We are using GSS 2.5 completly up to date.

Problem is that if i image a machine with the Ghost Console Boot Partition so it can talk to the ghost console then when i start a push task, it fails with the error "A GeneralException occurred", and i have no idea why this has started happening. It worked fine a couple of weeks ago. This means that i have to not use the console at all and just use ghostcast server but then i dont get deploy anywhere which isnt a big drama at the moment but i would like things to be working properley.

I would greatly appreciate any help. Thanks

Here is a ghost error file from one of the machines

*********************************
Date   : Mon Jan 17 22:29:04 2011
Error Number: (8027)
Message: A GeneralException occurred
Version: 11.5.1.2266 (Dec 24 2009, Build=2266)
OS Version: Professional  (Build 6000)
Command line arguments: -preservedest=1 -clone,dst=1,mode=restore,src=@MCDEPLOYpush77 -batch -sgb -jaddr=10.100.0.219 -sgt
Active Switches :
       AutoName
PathName            :
DumpFile            : @MCDEPLOYpush77
DumpPos             : 7168
FlagImplode         : 0
FlagExplode         : 3

CloneSrc            : @MCDEPLOYpush77
BatchPartSrc        : 0
BatchPartMSrc       :

CloneDst            : 1
BatchPartDst        : 0

Operation Details :
  Total size.........0
  MB copied..........0
  MB remaining.......0
  Percent complete...0%
  Speed..............0 MB/min
  Time elapsed.......0:00   
  Time remaining.....0:00   

[327782] No free space big enough to create volume
Generated at ..\VolumeContainerBios.cpp:497

Thread #588 Call Stack
VolumeContainerBios::doCreateVolume
VolumeContainer::createVolume
CreatePartitionType
StorePartitionInfo
FixupMasterBootRecord
CopyFileToDisk
CopyMainline
AttemptOperation
sub_main
main

Call Stack
Address            Frame              Logical Addr              Module
0x0000000076f20f34 0x000000000012e738 KiFastSystemCallRet+0x0000000000000000
0x000000000012ea38 0x000000000012e73c 0x0000:0x0000000000000000
0x000000000061b696 0x000000000012ea38 0x0001:0x000000000021a696 X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x000000000061cb61 0x000000000012ea60 0x0001:0x000000000021bb61 X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x000000000061c80d 0x000000000012eaa4 0x0001:0x000000000021b80d X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x00000000005fc078 0x000000000012ec70 0x0001:0x00000000001fb078 X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x00000000005feef8 0x000000000070cfb4 0x0001:0x00000000001fdef8 X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x0000000000608fa5 0x000000000070cfb8 0x0001:0x0000000000207fa5 X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x00000000006084c9 0x000000000070cfbc 0x0001:0x00000000002074c9 X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x00000000005f7cd5 0x000000000070cfc0 0x0001:0x00000000001f6cd5 X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x00000000005de6f6 0x000000000070cfc4 0x0001:0x00000000001dd6f6 X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x00000000005de739 0x000000000070cfc8 0x0001:0x00000000001dd739 X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x00000000005de778 0x000000000070cfcc 0x0001:0x00000000001dd778 X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x00000000005de7bb 0x000000000070cfd0 0x0001:0x00000000001dd7bb X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x00000000005de7fa 0x000000000070cfd4 0x0001:0x00000000001dd7fa X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x00000000005de839 0x000000000070cfd8 0x0001:0x00000000001dd839 X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x00000000005f90cb 0x000000000070cfdc 0x0001:0x00000000001f80cb X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x00000000005fb10f 0x000000000070cfe0 0x0001:0x00000000001fa10f X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x00000000005de8fe 0x000000000070cfe4 0x0001:0x00000000001dd8fe X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x00000000005fb1ab 0x000000000070cfe8 0x0001:0x00000000001fa1ab X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x00000000005de980 0x000000000070cfec 0x0001:0x00000000001dd980 X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x00000000005fb76d 0x000000000070cff0 0x0001:0x00000000001fa76d X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x00000000005dea02 0x000000000070cff4 0x0001:0x00000000001dda02 X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x00000000005dea41 0x000000000070cff8 0x0001:0x00000000001dda41 X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x00000000005dea80 0x000000000070cffc 0x0001:0x00000000001dda80 X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x00000000005deac3 0x000000000070d000 0x0001:0x00000000001ddac3 X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x00000000005deb02 0x000000000070d004 0x0001:0x00000000001ddb02 X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x00000000005deb45 0x000000000070d008 0x0001:0x00000000001ddb45 X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x00000000005deb84 0x000000000070d00c 0x0001:0x00000000001ddb84 X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x00000000005debc3 0x000000000070d010 0x0001:0x00000000001ddbc3 X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x00000000005dec06 0x000000000070d014 0x0001:0x00000000001ddc06 X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x00000000005dec45 0x000000000070d018 0x0001:0x00000000001ddc45 X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x00000000005dec84 0x000000000070d01c 0x0001:0x00000000001ddc84 X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x00000000005decc3 0x000000000070d020 0x0001:0x00000000001ddcc3 X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x00000000005ded02 0x000000000070d024 0x0001:0x00000000001ddd02 X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x00000000005ded41 0x000000000070d028 0x0001:0x00000000001ddd41 X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x00000000005ded80 0x000000000070d02c 0x0001:0x00000000001ddd80 X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x00000000005dedc3 0x000000000070d030 0x0001:0x00000000001dddc3 X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x00000000005dee02 0x000000000070d034 0x0001:0x00000000001dde02 X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x00000000005dee41 0x000000000070d038 0x0001:0x00000000001dde41 X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x00000000005dee80 0x000000000070d03c 0x0001:0x00000000001dde80 X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x00000000005deec3 0x000000000070d040 0x0001:0x00000000001ddec3 X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x00000000005def02 0x000000000070d044 0x0001:0x00000000001ddf02 X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x00000000005def41 0x000000000070d048 0x0001:0x00000000001ddf41 X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x00000000005def84 0x000000000070d04c 0x0001:0x00000000001ddf84 X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x00000000005defc3 0x000000000070d050 0x0001:0x00000000001ddfc3 X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x00000000005df002 0x000000000070d054 0x0001:0x00000000001de002 X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x00000000005df041 0x000000000070d058 0x0001:0x00000000001de041 X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x00000000005df084 0x000000000070d05c 0x0001:0x00000000001de084 X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x00000000005f7707 0x000000000070d060 0x0001:0x00000000001f6707 X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x00000000005f7309 0x000000000070d064 0x0001:0x00000000001f6309 X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x00000000005f73c7 0x000000000070d068 0x0001:0x00000000001f63c7 X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x00000000005f73fc 0x000000000070d06c 0x0001:0x00000000001f63fc X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x00000000005f7403 0x000000000070d070 0x0001:0x00000000001f6403 X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x00000000005f7452 0x000000000070d074 0x0001:0x00000000001f6452 X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x00000000005f7d69 0x000000000070d078 0x0001:0x00000000001f6d69 X:\GHOST\ghost32.exe
0x000000006b636162 0x000000000070d07c 0x0000:0x0000000000000000
0x0000000075437075 0x000000000070d080 0x0000:0x0000000000000000
0x000000006e657272 0x000000000070d084 0x0000:0x0000000000000000
0x000000006e6f4374 0x000000000070d088 0x0000:0x0000000000000000
0x000000006e696174 0x000000000070d08c 0x0000:0x0000000000000000
End Call Stack


Start heap available: 1564094464
Cur   heap available: 1554788352
Total Memory:         1869086720

Allocated
  33500 ..\ghost.cpp:1511
Free

Fat details:

NTFS details:
----------------

NTFS Global Flags:
----------------
     contiguousWrite=1 forceDiskClusterMapping=0
     inhibitCHKDSK=1 ignoreBadLog=0 ignoreCHKDSKBit=0
     enable_cache=0 xfrbuflen=0
     last_attr_type = 0
     loadExact = 0
     sameSize = 0
----------------

Disk Info :
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  Full structure dump....
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            SSizeAdjustment: 0
            PID_IS_VOLUME_CONTAINER: false
            PID_SYSTEM_ID: 7
            PID_START_CHS:
            {
               PID_SECTOR: 21
               PID_HEAD: 20
               PID_CYLINDER: 0
            }
            PID_FORMAT: 8
            PID_ACTIVE: true
            PID_EXTENT:
            {
               PID_EXTENT_CONTAINER_EXTENT_INDEX: 0
               PID_EXTENT_START: ffe00
               PID_EXTENT_SIZE_MINIMUM: 168ee00000
               PID_EXTENT_SIZE_MAXIMUM: 168ee00000
            }
            SFirstSect: 12a19000
            PID_READ_ONLY: false
            PID_FIND_LAST: false
            PID_NAME:
            SFlags: 0
            PID_ROLE_FORMAT_MATCHING_TYPE: 0
            SEndFpos: 7865db805
            PID_VOLUME_SIZE_MINIMUM: 168ee00000
            PID_PARENT_BOOT_RECORD_SECTOR_OFFSET: 0
            PID_FIND_WORST_FIT: false
            SGflags: 4
            PID_NO_HARD_ERROR: true
            PID_VOLUME_SIZE_MAXIMUM: 168ee00000
            PID_END_CHS_MAXED_OUT: true
            PID_HIDDEN: false
            PID_IS_VOLUME: true
            PID_VOLUME_NOTIFY_OS: true
            PID_PARENT_BOOT_RECORD_SLOT_NUMBER: 0
            SSectorsUsed: 658ad30
            PID_ROLE: 2
         }

         {
            PID_POSITION_ID: 1.2:
            SFlagInp: 0
            SFileOperationOffset: 0
            PID_VOLUME_NAME: TEMP
            PID_FIND_FIRST: false
            PID_FIND_BEST_FIT: false
            SSlot: 1
            PID_VOLUME_DRIVE_LETTER: E:
            SNumSects: 6b0
            PID_VOLUME_TYPE: 1
            PID_START_CHS_MAXED_OUT: true
            PID_FORMAT_TYPE: 8
            SOrder: 1
            SFpos: 7865db805
            PID_VOLUME_SLOT_NUMBER: 1
            PID_END_CHS:
            {
               PID_SECTOR: 3f
               PID_HEAD: fe
               PID_CYLINDER: 3ff
            }
            PID_VOLUME_START: 168eeffe00
            SBootable: false
            PID_CLEANLY_SHUTDOWN: true
            SExtended: false
            SSystemId: 7
            SSizeAdjustment: 0
            PID_IS_VOLUME_CONTAINER: false
            PID_SYSTEM_ID: 7
            PID_START_CHS:
            {
               PID_SECTOR: 3f
               PID_HEAD: fe
               PID_CYLINDER: 3ff
            }
            PID_FORMAT: 8
            PID_ACTIVE: false
            PID_EXTENT:
            {
               PID_EXTENT_CONTAINER_EXTENT_INDEX: 0
               PID_EXTENT_START: 168eeffe00
               PID_EXTENT_SIZE_MINIMUM: 270f00000
               PID_EXTENT_SIZE_MAXIMUM: 270f00000
            }
            SFirstSect: 12a19000
            PID_READ_ONLY: false
            PID_FIND_LAST: false
            PID_NAME:
            SFlags: 0
            PID_ROLE_FORMAT_MATCHING_TYPE: 0
            SEndFpos: 786875051
            PID_VOLUME_SIZE_MINIMUM: 270f00000
            PID_PARENT_BOOT_RECORD_SECTOR_OFFSET: 0
            PID_FIND_WORST_FIT: false
            SGflags: 4
            PID_NO_HARD_ERROR: true
            PID_VOLUME_SIZE_MAXIMUM: 270f00000
            PID_END_CHS_MAXED_OUT: true
            PID_HIDDEN: false
            PID_IS_VOLUME: true
            PID_VOLUME_NOTIFY_OS: true
            PID_PARENT_BOOT_RECORD_SLOT_NUMBER: 1
            SSectorsUsed: 250a0
            PID_ROLE: 2
         }
      ]
      SSectorsUsed: 12a197e2
   }


 # Ord Boot Id Ext     First        Num       Last       Used NTFS
 0  1    1   7 No  312578048       1712  312579760  106474800 Yes
 1  1    0   7 No  312578048       1712  312579760     151712 Yes

Fixed Drives

Drive 0 WDC WD1600AAJS-60Z0A0      WD-WCAV3C777790

Total Sectors            312581808
Bytes per Sector         512
MB                       152627
Cylinders                19457
Heads                    255
Sectors per Track        63

Drive 0 WDC WD1600AAJS-60Z0A0      WD-WCAV3C777790
WinNT (Active)
Total Sectors            312581808
Bytes per Sector         512
MB                       152627
Cylinders                19457
Heads                    255
Sectors per Track        63
Successful IO Count      15

AsyncIo : 0

Image Devices

Key[1]   1.1:
Key[2]   1:1
Key[3]   C:
Path     C:
Desc     C: 1.1: [-GHOSTBOOT-]
Type     NTFS
Disk     0
Offset   63

Key[1]   D:
Path     D:
Desc     D:
Type     CD

Key[1]   X:
Path     X:
Desc     X: [Boot]
Type     Disk

Key[1]   @CD-R1
Path     @CD-R1
Desc     @CD-R1 hp      DVD-RAM GH60L   
Type     DVD


Volume attributes
=================
1.1:
Attribute dump
BiosId:128
DiskSignature9x:1978164454
DiskSignatureNt:3390337183
DiskModelNumber:WDC WD1600AAJS-60Z0A0
DiskSerialNumber:     WD-WCAV3C777790
VolumeSectorOffset:63

LargeMemoryAllocationFactory diagnostic...
==========================================

Heap available at construction: 1564155904
Current heap available:         1554624512
Total Memory:                   1869086720

Allocated

DiskManager diagnostic...
=========================

Fixed Drives

Drive 0 WDC WD1600AAJS-60Z0A0      WD-WCAV3C777790

Total Sectors            312581808
Bytes per Sector         512
MB                       152627
Cylinders                19457
Heads                    255
Sectors per Track        63

Drive 0 WDC WD1600AAJS-60Z0A0      WD-WCAV3C777790
WinNT (Active)
Total Sectors            312581808
Bytes per Sector         512
MB                       152627
Cylinders                19457
Heads                    255
Sectors per Track        63
Successful IO Count      15

FilesystemMounter diagnostic...
===============================


FilesystemManager diagnostic...
===============================

Volume 1
VolumePos: 1.1:
DriveLetter: C:
Description:  149.05GB Primary Disk 0 Offset   31.50KB  149.05GB WDC WD1600AAJS-60Z0A0      WD-WCAV3C777790
Type:        fsfNtfsWindowsXP
Name:        -GHOSTBOOT-

Volume 2
VolumePos:
DriveLetter:
Description:  149.05GB
Type:        fsfNtfsWindowsXP
Name:        -GHOSTBOOT-


LfoFilesystemManager diagnostic...
==================================

Filesystem Index: 0
Filesystem Descriptor:
  ID's:
    ID Type: 2
    ID: C:
    ID Type: 1
    ID: 1.1:
    ID Type: 4
    ID: -GHOSTBOOT-:
  DriveType: 4
  FilesystemInfo:
    formatType: 8
    volumeName: -GHOSTBOOT-

Filesystem Index: 1
Filesystem Descriptor:
  ID's:
    ID Type: 2
    ID: D:
  DriveType: 8
  No FilesystemInfo structure.
  Filesystem has no VolumePtr

Filesystem Index: 2
Filesystem Descriptor:
  ID's:
    ID Type: 2
    ID: X:
  DriveType: 4
  No FilesystemInfo structure.
  Filesystem has no VolumePtr

Filesystem Index: 3
Filesystem Descriptor:
  ID's:
    ID Type: 1
    ID: 1.2:
  DriveType: 4
  No FilesystemInfo structure.


Environment Variables
=====================

ALLUSERSPROFILE=X:\ProgramData
CommonProgramFiles=x:\Program Files\Common Files
COMPUTERNAME=MININT-A6G0ORK
ComSpec=X:\windows\system32\cmd.exe
FP_NO_HOST_CHECK=NO
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=4
OS=Windows_NT
Path=X:\windows\system32;X:\windows;;x:\ghost
PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.MSC
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=x86
PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=x86 Family 6 Model 37 Stepping 2, GenuineIntel
PROCESSOR_LEVEL=6
PROCESSOR_REVISION=2502
ProgramData=X:\ProgramData
ProgramFiles=x:\Program Files
PROMPT=$P$G
PUBLIC=X:\Users\Public
SystemDrive=X:
SystemRoot=X:\windows
TEMP=X:\windows\TEMP
TMP=X:\windows\TEMP
USERNAME=SYSTEM
USERPROFILE=X:\windows\system32\config\systemprofile
windir=X:\windows


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If it was working a couple of weeks ago, what has changed in the last couple of weeks?

Has the target hardware changed? Have bios settings on the hardware changed?  

You mention being "completely up to date" but do not mention the build version you are on. This should be at least 2266. Was the same version being used a couple of weeks ago?

I note a message in the log:  "No free space big enough to create volume". 

Which boot are you using PCDOS or WinPE ?  

Either you need to clear existing partitions before imaging, or the drive is not accessible for some reason, eg using PCDOS with a system that has SATA drives and a bios that is not set to compatibility mode.

You need to give us a lot more detail about your setup in order for us to be able to suggest further avenues to explore.

By upto date i mean live update doesnt find any updates. The version is 2266. I have been using this version since i started.

Sorry i should have mentioned that i am using WinPE.

I cant believe i didnt notice the "No free space big enough to create volume" but to answer your question nothing has changed. Same hardware and bios settings. But when i say it did work that was only on a small group of machines and it only worked once i believe. But i am now trying on several different types of machine.

I dont know why it is saying there is not enough space as the smallest HDD im using is 80gb and the image is only 55GB. I think it maybe already has a partition on it that is the wrong size or something like that but why should that matter if it is a disk image? Is there a way i can force it or do i have to go to each machine with a gparted usb stick?

Sorry scratch that. I remember it working but after looking throught the event log it has never worked.

One possible cause is that the WinPE boot is unable to access the hard disk on your target system for some reason. I don't know the age of your machines or the make, but assuming that the hardware is from the last year or two, the hard disk is very likely to be SATA.

Although WinPE 2 has basic SATA support, there are many new chipsets out there that require you to add Vista 32 bit drivers to the WinPE boot disk for the SATA chipset, so that the hard disk can be mounted by WinPE.

As a test measure, you could go into the BIOS settings and check if you can set the hard disk to "compatibility mode" which will cause the hard disk to appear to be an older parallel ATA (IDE) device, which will not require a specific driver for WinPE to see it.

If this is not the issue, then it would surely be a simple test to nuke the hard disk partitions with GDISK or GPARTED from a USB stick (again assuming that your boot system can actually mount the hard disk) and then try deploying the image again.

If you want to experiment with WinPE outside the Ghost framework and create some WinPE boot media of your own design, then check out the following article: Adventures with WinPE Symantec Connect

If a standard WinPE boot device created this way cannot read your system's hard disk then neither will the Ghost configured WinPE, as they are the same basic code.

All our computers are already in compatability mode as we have been running xp until now and that just made things easier.

I can see the disk fine if i run diskpart from withing WinPE so the OS can see the disk. Dont know if it matters but the image im trying to deploy has 2 partitions. The second one is only 10gb and has almost no data on it. Could this be causing issues?

Is there no ghost switches that will force it to run? I really dont want to have to go to each computer and use gparted to wipe the disks.

The usual configuration for Win 7 is one small partition of around 100Mb and then the main partition using the rest of the space you allocated to the Win 7 installation.

There are plenty of postings and articles on Win 7 deployment, so if you have not done so yet, try the search engine.

What is normally contained in that first 100Mb? Isnt it the MBR etc?

What i dont understand is i am using the default ghost console boot partition. I have not modified it in anyway. So if the problem is windows 7 or more specifically my image containing a second partition then does that mean that ghost only supports a basic windows 7 install and nothing more? Because that is not my understanding. And on a side note if i do a partition restore so it is only imaging the one partition down that fails as well.

I have just checked and the machines conatin 3 partitions. The ghostboot partition, and the 2 partitions from my image. Which begs the question why is ghost not ghosting over them? Or deleting them before trying to pull down the image?

As a temporary workaround i wll create a diskpart script and deploy it with some commands from ghost console. If it works i will post back here incase anyone else needs it. But i really think this is a problem with ghost.

What if i used the -ia switch to capture? would that then image sector by sector and overwrite the partitions? Or could i use one of the -sze commands to specify or overwrite size?

So i worked it out in the end. Pretty simple solution.

On the Clone tab for your task click on the advanced options and then tick the box to Overwrite Ghost Boot Partition.

It seems that when partitioning the disk the boot partition gets in the way. Thats why if i ran the task using the windows client it worked but if i ran it on machines that had been imaged with the boot partition it failed.

Hope this helps someone else!