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2016-02-10 Thread bugproxy 
--- Comment From ru...@us.ibm.com 2016-02-10 10:30 EDT---
Hi Mathieu.

Our test team tested using the specific URL you provided and also
continue to encounter the failure.   I am currently re-running my own
test for confirmation of previous timelines.

(In reply to comment #50)
> HI,
>
> Tried installing ubuntu14.04.4 using netboot install which is pointed to
> 'http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/dists/trusty-proposed/main/installer-
> ppc64el/20101020ubuntu318.35/images/wily-netboot/'  this netboot image and
> it still fails with same error as earlier on Habenaro system bmc-ray.
>
>
>
>  ? [!!] Install the GRUB boot loader on a hard disk ??
>  ?   ?
>  ? Installation step failed  ?
>  ? An installation step failed. You can try to run the failing item  ?
>  ? again from the menu, or skip it and choose something else. The?
>  ? failing step is: Install the GRUB boot loader on a hard disk  ?
>  ?   ?
>  ? ?
>  ?   ?
>  ?
>
>
> Regards,
> Indira

--- Comment From ru...@us.ibm.com 2016-02-10 10:47 EDT---
My retest succeeded, so I'm re-marking this bug back to verification-needed 
while I work on resolving why the test team's test is failing.  Please stand by 
a bit.

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2016-02-08 Thread bugproxy 
--- Comment From jgriv...@us.ibm.com 2016-02-08 11:59 EDT---
Hi
I still see the netboot images from 1/26,   When will the images with the fix 
be available?

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2016-02-05 Thread bugproxy 
--- Comment From ru...@us.ibm.com 2016-02-05 11:11 EDT---
Since this is an install-time issue, we'll need an updated ubuntu-installer 
initrd.gz image to test (that's what we were using for our internal validation 
of the proposed patch).  The files found at

http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/dists/trusty-proposed/main
/installer-ppc64el/current/images/wily-netboot/ubuntu-installer/ppc64el/

are still dated 26-Jan-2016

Please let us know when those netboot images have been updated.

Thanks.

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2016-02-04 Thread bugproxy 
--- Comment From ru...@us.ibm.com 2016-02-04 11:18 EDT---
*** Bug 136048 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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2016-02-02 Thread bugproxy 
--- Comment From mauri...@br.ibm.com 2016-02-02 11:30 EDT---
*** Bug 136186 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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2016-02-01 Thread bugproxy 
--- Comment From mauri...@br.ibm.com 2016-02-01 11:01 EDT---
No partman-prep listed in syslog in this bug too.

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2016-01-27 Thread bugproxy 
--- Comment From ru...@us.ibm.com 2016-01-27 16:21 EDT---
BTW:  I did do another install with apt-setup/proposed=true in place, but it 
also failed in the same way.

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2016-01-27 Thread bugproxy 
--- Comment From ru...@us.ibm.com 2016-01-27 16:14 EDT---
I did another install with latest netboot image (Jan 26).  It  did not change 
the behavior, and failed in the same way.  I again deleted /dev/sda from the 
installer's view and let it complete.  The attached sosreport is from that 
install test.

Is there some special install option I should be passing in order to get
it to pick up your latest partman-prep update?

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2016-01-25 Thread bugproxy 
--- Comment From ru...@us.ibm.com 2016-01-25 14:41 EDT---
The last install test was run on 2016-01-14.  The system hasn't been needed, so 
it was left in the partial install state in case additional testing was needed. 
 I blocked the installer's view of /dev/sda and let it complete so that 
additional post-install data could be gathered.

No RAID was used for this install.  Once booted, the partition
information shown for the new install disk is:

# parted /dev/sdb print
Model: IBM IPR-0 5DA5D300 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 1143GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt

Number  Start   End SizeFile system Name  Flags
1  1049kB  8389kB  7340kBboot
2  8389kB  1096GB  1096GB  ext4
3  1096GB  1143GB  46.2GB  linux-swap(v1)

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2016-01-25 Thread bugproxy 
--- Comment From ru...@us.ibm.com 2016-01-25 11:07 EDT---
(In reply to comment #24)
> Still, we do add PReP partitions for every ppc64el system. This means you're
> doing manual partitioning, and specifically omitting the PReP partition, no?

Actually, no.  The partitioning is the the default chosen.  All I did
was to specify that all of /dev/sdb should be used.

> In this case, is there any way we can recognize this particular system? Is
> it some chrp subtype that we should completely skip the PReP partition for?
> This would mean changes needed in grub-installer, as well as updates to
> partman-auto automatic partitioning recipes.

I suspect that the installer is already recognizing that it does not
need a PReP partition for this system (PowerNV/OPAL):

platform: PowerNV
model   : 8247-42L
machine : PowerNV 8247-42L
firmware: OPAL v3

I think the original replication test system tripped across this issue
because the system was being used in different test roles, and sharing
disk resources between different boot environments.  The alternate disk
found with a PReP partition was being used by a PowerKVM guest when
doing testing for that environment.  This is what the PowerKVM guest
environment reports:

platform: pSeries
model   : IBM pSeries (emulated by qemu)
machine : CHRP IBM pSeries (emulated by qemu)

So, it looks like the installer partitioning code is correctly handling
PowerNV vs CHRP.  It's the grub bootloader logic that wants to overwrite
the first PReP partition it finds (if one doesn't exist on the install
drive) that is in question.  Was there some historical reason for not
wanting a PReP partition on some other drive?

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2016-01-22 Thread bugproxy 
--- Comment From ru...@us.ibm.com 2016-01-22 17:46 EDT---
~ # /usr/lib/grub-installer/prep-bootdev
/dev/sda1

~ # /usr/lib/grub-installer/prep-bootdev -l
/dev/sda1

>From grub-installer:

...
case $ARCH:$grub_package in
ppc64el/*:grub-ieee1275)
# By default, use the first PReP partition found (prep-bootdev).
# If available, prefer a PReP partition in the same device (disc_offered).
# (the matching works on devices with/without disk-partition separator.)
wipe_bootdev=""
for prep_p in ; do
if [ "${prep_p%[0-9]*}" = "${disc_offered%[0-9]*}" ]; then
wipe_bootdev=$prep_p
break
fi
done
unset prep_p
...

The problem with the logic is that the install disk does not have a PReP
partition in this case (because one is not needed in this particular
environment).  So, grub-installer appears to go out searching for some
other victim when it should really just move along.

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