[arista/aboot]: Zero out 1st MB before repartitioning (#5220)

The first partition starting point was changed to be 1M as part of this
commit: 6ba2f97. On systems that are misaligned before conversion
(partition start is the first sector), the relica partition that is
left in the first MB can cause problems in Aboot and result in corruption
of the filesystem on the new aligned partition.

Zeroing this old relica makes sure that there is nothing left of the old
partition lying around. There won't be any risk of having Aboot corrupt
the new filesystem because of the old relica.

Signed-off-by: Baptiste Covolato <[email protected]>

Author: Nakrez

files/initramfs-tools/arista-convertfs.j2

@@ -213,6 +213,9 @@ umount "$root_mnt"
 
 if [ $(echo -n "$root_dev" | tail -c 1) == "1" ]; then
     # Create a new partition table (content in flash_dev will be deleted)
+    err_msg="Error: Failed to zero out first MB"
+    cmd="dd if=/dev/zero of=$flash_dev bs=512 count=2048"
+    run_cmd "$cmd" "$err_msg"
     err_msg="Error: repartitioning $flash_dev failed"
     cmd="echo '2048' | sfdisk $flash_dev || (sleep 3; blockdev --rereadpt $flash_dev && fdisk -l $flash_dev | grep -q ${root_dev}.*Linux)"
     run_cmd "$cmd" "$err_msg"