On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 08:51:38PM -0000, David Baird wrote:
> What is the cloudimg designed to boot with, if not libvirt? I think
> virtio-scsi is being used. Here's the virt-install line, if it helps,
Ok, it turns out this is a bug in the generic cloud image, which ships with
the linux-generic kernel, a kernel which is not expected to boot without
initramfs.
We should fix this to not set the FORCE_PARTUUID flag on this image, since
there's no expectation that it will work.
I've opened a task on livecd-rootfs for this.
Note that the /minimal/ downloadable cloud image uses the linux-kvm kernel
instead; that is the one that has the virtio drivers built-in, and can be
booted without an initramfs.
** Also affects: livecd-rootfs (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1870189
Title:
initramfs does not get loaded
Status in grub2 package in Ubuntu:
Won't Fix
Status in linux-azure package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in livecd-rootfs package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
A Gen-1 Ubuntu 19.10 VM on Azure was created and upgraded to Ubuntu
20.04 by “do-release-upgrade –d”.
Then the latest Ubuntu v5.6 kernel was installed from
https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.6/. As soon as a
reboot was performed, a panic with the v5.6 kernel occured because the
rootfs can not be found.
It turns out by default, initramfs does not get loaded:
/boot/grub/grub.cfg:
menuentry 'Ubuntu' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os
$menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-simple-3d2737e8-
b95a-42bf-bac1-bb6fb4cda87f' {
…
if [ "${initrdfail}" = 1 ]; then
linux /boot/vmlinuz-5.6.0-050600-generic
root=PARTUUID=bc3d472f-401e-4774-affa-df1acba65a73 ro console=tty1
console=ttyS0 earlyprintk=ttyS0 ignore_loglevel sysrq_always_enabled
unknown_nmi_panic
initrd /boot/initrd.img-5.6.0-050600-generic
else
linux /boot/vmlinuz-5.6.0-050600-generic
root=PARTUUID=bc3d472f-401e-4774-affa-df1acba65a73 ro console=tty1
console=ttyS0 earlyprintk=ttyS0 ignore_loglevel sysrq_always_enabled
unknown_nmi_panic panic=-1
#Dexuan: here the initrd line is missing!
fi
initrdfail
}
As we can see, Ubuntu only uses the initrd.img if initrdfail=1. Normally,
initrdfail = 0, so when we boot the v5.6 kernel for the first time, we must hit
the “fail to mount rootfs” panic and the kernel will automatically reboot….
Also, the “initrdfail” here marks initrdfail=1, so when the kernel
boots for the 2nd time, the kernel should successfully boot up. Next,
when the kernel boots for the 3rd time, it panics again since the
userspace program resets initrdfail to 0, and next time when the
kernel boots, it can boot up successfully -- this
“panic/success/panic/success” pattern repeats forever…
The linux-azure kernels are not affected since they have the vmbus driver and
storage drivers built-in (i.e. “=y”):
/boot/config-5.3.0-1013-azure:CONFIG_HYPERV_STORAGE=y
/boot/config-5.3.0-1013-azure:CONFIG_HYPERV=y
/boot/config-5.4.0-1006-azure:CONFIG_HYPERV_STORAGE=y
/boot/config-5.4.0-1006-azure:CONFIG_HYPERV=y
/boot/config-5.6.0-050600-generic:CONFIG_HYPERV_STORAGE=m
/boot/config-5.6.0-050600-generic:CONFIG_HYPERV=m
The v5.6 kernel uses =m rather than =y, so is affected here.
It looks the setting may be intentional, but we should not assume a customer
kernel must have the necessary vmbus/storage drivers built-in.
This issue only happens to the Ubuntu Marketplace image (19.10 and maybe
19.04 as well?) on Azure.
We installed a Ubuntu 20.04 VM from the .iso file from
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/pending/ and don’t see the strange grub
issue.
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