topic mbralign with Novell partition in VMware Solutions Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/VMware-Solutions-Discussions/mbralign-with-Novell-partition/m-p/19979#M1991 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>After using mbralign on a Novell server vmdk, the server will no longer come back online.&nbsp; The error is "No System Disk".</P><P></P><P>I see in the PDF the method for fixing GRUB on Linux, but does anyone know how to fix this for Novell?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:23:32 GMT jhubert 2025-06-05T07:23:32Z mbralign with Novell partition https://community.netapp.com/t5/VMware-Solutions-Discussions/mbralign-with-Novell-partition/m-p/19979#M1991 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>After using mbralign on a Novell server vmdk, the server will no longer come back online.&nbsp; The error is "No System Disk".</P><P></P><P>I see in the PDF the method for fixing GRUB on Linux, but does anyone know how to fix this for Novell?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:23:32 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/VMware-Solutions-Discussions/mbralign-with-Novell-partition/m-p/19979#M1991 jhubert 2025-06-05T07:23:32Z Re: mbralign with Novell partition https://community.netapp.com/t5/VMware-Solutions-Discussions/mbralign-with-Novell-partition/m-p/19984#M1993 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hmm....when I've run mbrscan against Novell VM vmdk's, they've actually come back as aligned -- are you seeing otherwise?</P><P></P><P>Given that, I'd presumed that NSS was aligned by default....no alignment needed. See some mbrscan output below.... (3 disks per VM -- 1 for DOS, 1 for the SYS volume, 1 for the data volumes)</P><P></P><P>~~~~~~~</P><P></P><P></P><P>/vmfs/volumes/7c1166f8-4da1ebe4/1Mail/1Mail-flat.vmdk p1 (FAT16)<SPAN> </SPAN>lba:32<SPAN> </SPAN>offset:16384<SPAN> </SPAN>aligned:Yes</P><P>--------------------</P><P>/vmfs/volumes/7c1166f8-4da1ebe4/1Mail/1Mail_1-flat.vmdk p1 (Novel)<SPAN> </SPAN>lba:32<SPAN> </SPAN>offset:16384<SPAN> </SPAN>aligned:Yes</P><P>--------------------</P><P>/vmfs/volumes/7c1166f8-4da1ebe4/1Mail/1Mail_2-flat.vmdk p1 (Novel)<SPAN> </SPAN>lba:32<SPAN> </SPAN>offset:16384<SPAN> </SPAN>aligned:Yes</P><P>--------------------</P><P>/vmfs/volumes/7c1166f8-4da1ebe4/2Mail/2Mail-flat.vmdk p1 (FAT16)<SPAN> </SPAN>lba:32<SPAN> </SPAN>offset:16384<SPAN> </SPAN>aligned:Yes</P><P>--------------------</P><P>/vmfs/volumes/7c1166f8-4da1ebe4/2Mail/2Mail_1-flat.vmdk p1 (Novel)<SPAN> </SPAN>lba:32<SPAN> </SPAN>offset:16384<SPAN> </SPAN>aligned:Yes</P><P>--------------------</P><P>/vmfs/volumes/7c1166f8-4da1ebe4/2Mail/2Mail_2-flat.vmdk p1 (Novel)<SPAN> </SPAN>lba:32<SPAN> </SPAN>offset:16384<SPAN> </SPAN>aligned:Yes</P><DIV> </DIV><P></P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:54:00 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/VMware-Solutions-Discussions/mbralign-with-Novell-partition/m-p/19984#M1993 amiller_1 2009-10-02T21:54:00Z