And a follow-up; out of despair I tried to install 14.04 on the same box w/ the foreman.
'lo and behold, it worketh. How do I find out in what weird and wonderful ways preseeding of 14.04 differs from 16.04? On 4 July 2016 at 08:14, Andrej <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -- 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.
