Hi Stefan, Thanks for the suggestion, but it unfortunately made no difference. The machine still won't boot after provisioning succeeds.
Cheers, Andrej On 1 July 2016 at 20:14, Dietrich, Stefan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Andrej, > > I think I had a similiar case for Ubuntu 14.04 on certain Dell machines as > well. > In our situation, adding rootdelay=90 as a kernel parameter helped and the > machine booted into the OS. > > You can add this via preseed: > d-i debian-installer/add-kernel-opts string noquiet nosplash rootdelay=90 > > Regards, > Stefan > >> Hi guys & girls, >> >> I've burnt a great many hours on this, and now, as suggested on IRC, I'll >> try my luck here on the mailing list. >> >> This is basically a copy of my question on serverfault >> ( >> http://serverfault.com/questions/787001/ubuntu-16-04-dell-r320-preseed-install-via-the-foreman >> ). >> >> >> After lots of trial & error I've finally given up on the "SATA RAID" the >> R320 provides, and resorted to using AHCI mode. >> >> >> Partitioning/Provisioning work fine, but on the next boot the machine >> claims to have no OS. >> >> >> Booting it in rescue mode of an ISO (vFlash) I can mount the disks, chroot >> to the installed OS, re-install GRUB w/o errors, but it still won't boot >> afterwards. I've not seen anything like this before, btw. >> Running a complete install of the ISO works as expected. >> >> How do I identify the cause of this behaviour, and, more importantly, make >> it go away? >> >> >> After several attempts of the above w/ a few tweaks to the preseed install >> (e.g. hard-coding the install disk to be /dev/sda, setting it via >> host-parameter to make use of template, ... ) I gave up on that. >> >> I then tried taking the selections from the manual install >> (debconf-get-selections --installer), filtered out anything that didn't >> disk|partm|grub in it and created a preseed partitioning file for the R320 >> from that; using that the machine never gets past "partman: reading all >> physical volumes ..." ... while it says this can take a long time I'll take >> 16h to be a failure :} >> >> >> And then in my desparation .. not being able to find out why/how the >> provisioned system is never bootable with 16.04 I figured I'd try debian8 >> (Jessie) and ask them about preseed in IRC when it fails. Added Debian as >> an OS in foreman, associated it with the same preseed files as Ubuntu, >> changed the hosts OS from Ubuntu 16.06 to Debian, kicked off a build. Had >> to answer 2 installer questions (language, hdd for grub), and had a working >> server in about 30 minutes :/ Not what I was going for. Can anyone tell me >> how to find out why Ubuntu behaves so differently? >> >> >> Cheers, >> Andrej >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Foreman users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email >> to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/foreman-users. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Foreman users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/foreman-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Please don't top post, and don't use HTML e-Mail :} Make your quotes concise. http://www.georgedillon.com/web/html_email_is_evil.shtml http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/email-style.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Foreman users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/foreman-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
