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livecd-rootfs package

ppc64el xenial cloud images do not boot in kvm

Bug #1538610 reported by Scott Moser on 2016-01-27

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	livecd-rootfs (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Critical	Dan Watkins

Bug Description

current cloud images for ppc64el leave you at a grub prompt. I've found this for xenial/20160126.1.

Booting image just produces grub menu like this:

GNU GRUB version 2.02~beta2-35

   Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB
   lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists possible
   device or file completions.

grub>

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lp:~oddbloke/livecd-rootfs/ppc64el

Merged into lp:livecd-rootfs at revision 1268

Colin Watson: Approve on 2016-01-28

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Scott Moser (smoser) wrote on 2016-01-27:

test ppc64el cloud image script Edit (2.0 KiB, text/x-sh)

The attached script downloads a cloud image, creates a seed , boots in kvm.
it works with:
./go-test-ppc64el.sh wily
it fails with
./go-test-ppc64el.sh xenial

Changed in ubuntu:
status:	New → Confirmed
importance:	Undecided → Critical
tags:	added: cloud-images cloud-images-build

Dan Watkins (oddbloke) on 2016-01-27

affects:	ubuntu → livecd-rootfs (Ubuntu)
Changed in livecd-rootfs (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → Dan Watkins (daniel-thewatkins)
status:	Confirmed → In Progress

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Scott Moser (smoser) wrote on 2016-01-27:

well, one thing that might be wrong is there appears to be no /boot/grub/grub.cfg in the image.

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Dan Watkins (oddbloke) wrote on 2016-01-27:

I believe the problem is that we don't do update-grub on the image; I'm building a test image with the attached branch now.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2016-01-27:

This bug was fixed in the package livecd-rootfs - 2.372

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livecd-rootfs (2.372) xenial; urgency=medium

* Install grub in ppc64el cloud images so they are bootable (LP: #1538610)

-- Daniel Watkins <email address hidden> Wed, 27 Jan 2016 16:32:58 +0000

Changed in livecd-rootfs (Ubuntu):
status:	In Progress → Fix Released

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Dan Watkins (oddbloke) wrote on 2016-01-27:

The fix for this has been merged, and will be included in the 20160127.1 build of xenial cloud images.

smoser pointed out that there shouldn't be any timeout configured, which I am now looking at fixing; that's unlikely to happen before I EOD so will be tomorrow. :)

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Dan Watkins (oddbloke) wrote on 2016-01-28:

The timeout fix is in https://code.launchpad.net/~daniel-thewatkins/livecd-rootfs/ppc64el/+merge/284229