[Bug 1883040] Re: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxes

2020-09-13 Thread Harry Coin
This is still an issue 9/13/20, ubuntu mate groovy daily build. pre- uefi server won't boot w/ubuntu usb creator, works with unetbootin. Whatever the change was, it happened within the last 10 days or so. An earlier daily build did boot on that same machine without trouble. -- You received this

[Bug 1883040] Re: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxes

2020-09-13 Thread Harry Coin
server was bare-metal S5000PSL -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1883040 Title: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxes To manage notifications about this bug go to: ht

[Bug 1883040] Re: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxes

2020-07-11 Thread Steve Langasek
** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 1886148 failure to boot groovy daily -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1883040 Title: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS bo

[Bug 1883040] Re: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxes

2020-07-11 Thread Norbert
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1886148 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1886148 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1886148 failure to boot groovy daily -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://

[Bug 1883040] Re: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxes

2020-07-08 Thread Adam Reviczky
A workaround is to write the daily image with unetbootin.github.io that uses syslinux instead of grub. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1883040 Title: groovy daily won't boot anymore on

[Bug 1883040] Re: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxes

2020-07-08 Thread Steve Langasek
Please see bug #1886148 for tracking of the current issue. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1883040 Title: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxes To manage notificati

[Bug 1883040] Re: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxes

2020-07-08 Thread Norbert
Confirmed Ubuntu MATE 20200708 on Asus UX32A, i7-3537u, legacy - fails to boot -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1883040 Title: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxes

[Bug 1883040] Re: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxes

2020-07-08 Thread Norbert
Confirmed Ubuntu MATE 20200708 on Thinkpad SL500, c2d T9550, legacy only - fails to boot -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1883040 Title: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BI

[Bug 1883040] Re: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxes

2020-07-08 Thread Norbert
Confirmed Ubuntu MATE 20200807 on VAIO F13, i7-740qm, legacy only - fails to boot -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1883040 Title: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxe

[Bug 1883040] Re: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxes

2020-07-08 Thread Bill (franksmcb)
This is now occurring on Ubuntu MATE 2020078 Groovy ISO. Thinkpad T430N , this system has previous installed prior Groovy Daily ISOs. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1883040 Title: gr

[Bug 1883040] Re: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxes

2020-06-16 Thread Chris Guiver
Successful boot on 20200616 on hp dc7700 (c2d-e6320, 5gb, nvidia quadro nvs 290) (this is NOT the box wanted; but in case it's helpful as it suffered from this issue too) ** Attachment added: "sudo journalctl -b >dc7700_journal.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/1883040/+atta

[Bug 1883040] Re: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxes

2020-06-16 Thread Chris Guiver
Successful boot of 20200616 on dell [optiplex] 755 (c2d-e6850, 5gb, amd/ati radeon rv516/x1300/x1550) and requested file (I'll complete a quick QA-test on this box; then upload same from dc7700 or the other box that was impacted by this issue (the one that booted in comment #26)) ** Attachment ad

[Bug 1883040] Re: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxes

2020-06-16 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
@guiverc If 20200616 is successful, please attach the full syslog from said machine. i.e. $ sudo journalctl -b > journal.txt And then attach that file here. I am interested to know the exact timings, from that machine that was affected. I.e. the d755-5 box with a successful groovy boot. -- Yo

[Bug 1883040] Re: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxes

2020-06-15 Thread Chris Guiver
Today's Lubuntu groovy daily (20200615) booted on dc7700 :) Alas it failed on d755-5 box I'll monitor it anyway (fingers crossed for 20200616...) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1883040

[Bug 1883040] Re: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxes

2020-06-15 Thread Steve Langasek
** Changed in: ubuntu-cdimage Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1883040 Title: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxes To manage notificat

[Bug 1883040] Re: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxes

2020-06-15 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Partial revert is uploaded. Please try _tomorrows_ images with build-stamp 20200616 or higher, and let me know if you see improvements in bootability of lubuntu images. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.laun

[Bug 1883040] Re: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxes

2020-06-15 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
This bug was fixed in the package casper - 1.451 --- casper (1.451) groovy; urgency=medium * caser: revert changes to quick-boot (LP: #1883040) -- Dimitri John Ledkov Mon, 15 Jun 2020 11:46:39 +0100 ** Changed in: casper (Ubuntu Groovy) Status: New => Fix Released -- Y

[Bug 1883040] Re: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxes

2020-06-14 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
** Merge proposal linked: https://code.launchpad.net/~xnox/casper/+git/casper/+merge/385724 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1883040 Title: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some ol

[Bug 1883040] Re: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxes

2020-06-14 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Please never assign bugs to syslinux Please always use "ubuntu- cdimage" project. Because it is clear that iso did boot past the bootloader, kernel and the initrd. Thus it cannot be a syslinux issue. ** Also affects: ubuntu-cdimage Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects:

[Bug 1883040] Re: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxes

2020-06-14 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Thank you for pictures in comment #18 So the above means that it did boot. I.e. bootloader was found, kernel was found, initrd was found, and initrd is booting. However initrd fails to find the block device where the .iso is. One change that was done in groovy is to reduce the timeout that initr

[Bug 1883040] Re: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxes

2020-06-14 Thread sudodus
Via this link: http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/413/builds/213471/testcases and its 'Link to the download information' you *should* be able to download the relevant mini.iso file. That way I find #621, the same as you refer to. But your results indicate that it is not upgraded from f

[Bug 1883040] Re: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxes

2020-06-14 Thread Chris Guiver
Found it :) (thanks to @dax on IRC) http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/groovy/main/installer-amd64/20101020ubuntu621/legacy-images/netboot/mini.iso it boots on both boxes (to installer boot menu). I won't overwrite d755 so only went further on dc7700; it commenced debian installer, i went la

[Bug 1883040] Re: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxes

2020-06-14 Thread Chris Guiver
Nope; scratch my last (#19) - it's reporting 20.04 & not focal (lsb_release & neofetch given lubuntu-desktop is installed)... Something is wrong with what I did in #19 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launc

[Bug 1883040] Re: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxes

2020-06-13 Thread Chris Guiver
I'll respond as I can do items. For now I'll provide Lubuntu groovy daily (maybe two days old, same as my prior two comments) https://photos.app.goo.gl/ZnGr7E4XHDhJby2r9 https://photos.app.goo.gl/1zPczBNR6BB28b5n6 photos are of same thing, first portrait (more lines vertically seen), second lan

[Bug 1883040] Re: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxes

2020-06-13 Thread sudodus
@guiverc, [Unfortunately for squashing this bug] I got rid of some old computers when I moved to a smaller apartment last summer. My oldest 64-bit computer now has an Intel i3 processor, and it is not affected by this bug. - Can you boot the current groovy mini.iso into the computers affected by

[Bug 1883040] Re: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxes

2020-06-13 Thread sudodus
@guiverc, Yes, syslinux is not involved at all in persistent live drives by mkusb- dus, so it is innocent. Will you get more information, when you remove 'quiet splash' from the linux line in grub? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribe

[Bug 1883040] Re: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxes

2020-06-12 Thread Chris Guiver
summary: no difference with dus `persistent' over dus `live` I have written my last lubuntu [groovy] daily ISO (comment #11) using `dus` (mkusb) however where for comment #11 it was written using the 'l' option for 'live' media.. this time I selected "persistent" In writing (dus) I selected msdo

[Bug 1883040] Re: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxes

2020-06-12 Thread sudodus
Item 3 above concerns cloned live drives, that I think you have been using. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1883040 Title: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxes To

[Bug 1883040] Re: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxes

2020-06-12 Thread sudodus
@guiverc, 1. Apropos xnox's comment: You could create a persistent live drive with mkusb. It boots via grub (not syslinux) also in BIOS mode. That way you could make sure that it is not related to syslinux. 2. I have seen [the same or similar] complaints about missing optical media recently, but

[Bug 1883040] Re: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxes

2020-06-12 Thread Chris Guiver
is my timeline accurate?? I don't know how to scan http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/api to download all my tests so I can grep for those specific (impacted) boxes (I copy/paste boxes from a list on first comment line of recorded tests) to see when I booted each... however .. I booted dc7700 and

[Bug 1883040] Re: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxes

2020-06-12 Thread Francis Ginther
** Tags added: id-5ee24bb4edd42c7b21dc5a88 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1883040 Title: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxes To manage notifications about this b

[Bug 1883040] Re: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxes

2020-06-11 Thread Chris Guiver
Lubuntu's current groovy daily booted on d755-5 dell [optiplex] 755 (c2d-e6850, 5gb, amd/ati radeon rv516/x1300/x1550) [shaky] MOVIE: https://photos.app.goo.gl/zXbsSLd1k3MTzwLw5 Video in case help, you can see - language selection - start lubuntu/start lubuntu(safe graphics)/test memory/boot firs

[Bug 1883040] Re: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxes

2020-06-11 Thread Chris Guiver
identical messages on d755-5 that has this issue -- stdin: Not a typewriter /init: line 49: can't open /dev/sr0: No medium found /init: line 49: can't open /dev/sr0: No medium found Unable to find a medium container a live file system Attempt interactive netboot from a URL? yes no (default yes): --

[Bug 1883040] Re: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxes

2020-06-11 Thread Chris Guiver
nothing new... I'll type what I see on today's lubuntu ISO on dc7700 (http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/413/builds/214535/testcases/1303/results/ with thumb-drive booted on hp8200 before hand to prove it's good) [999. ima:Error Communicating with TPM chip (i ignore this & above 13 me

[Bug 1883040] Re: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxes

2020-06-11 Thread Brian Murray
** Tags removed: rls-gg-incoming -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1883040 Title: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxes To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 1883040] Re: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxes

2020-06-11 Thread Brian Murray
** Also affects: syslinux (Ubuntu Groovy) Importance: High Status: New ** Changed in: syslinux (Ubuntu Groovy) Status: New => Triaged -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/188

[Bug 1883040] Re: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxes

2020-06-11 Thread Chris Guiver
Focal daily (2020-06-10) booted fine on both d755 & dc7700 boxes that currently fail to boot groovy. http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/408/builds/214527/testcases/1303/results -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu

[Bug 1883040] Re: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxes

2020-06-11 Thread Sebastien Bacher
** Tags added: rls-gg-incoming ** Changed in: syslinux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1883040 Title: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some

[Bug 1883040] Re: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxes

2020-06-10 Thread Chris Guiver
A thought: on Friday/Saturday/Sunday (5-7 June) testing of Lubuntu, I won't have used the d755 that fails to boot now, in fact may not have used either box (to open all menu programs in 'live' testing, it's faster on keyboards that have a super key; those boxes share a 1980s ibm model m keyboard.

[Bug 1883040] Re: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxes

2020-06-10 Thread Chris Guiver
syslinux will be wrong package then, sorry. I don't understand boot process so can't help with cause. (my focusing on a `calamares` issue on the d755 that didn't have this issue also means I've favored that box in hopes to gain more detail on lubuntu's calamares issue, but do regularly use dc7700

[Bug 1883040] Re: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxes

2020-06-10 Thread Daniel van Vugt
syslinux hasn't changed since 2020-04-24 so is unlikely to be the culprit. Actually I can't see any candidate that has changed recently. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1883040 Title:

[Bug 1883040] Re: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxes

2020-06-10 Thread Chris Guiver
For ~exact dating on when this issue occurs - look at my Lubuntu daily testing... Lubuntu daily boots on hp8200 (the same thumb-drive that I mentioned failing earlier as it no longer boots on hp dc7700 which is a box I very regularly re-wipe with QA-test installs). Of late I've favored the d755

[Bug 1883040] Re: groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxes

2020-06-10 Thread Chris Guiver
** Description changed: ** Synopsis I haven't been able to get ISOs to boot on older BIOS based boxes since late Sunday (7-June). Examples are Ubuntu, Ubuntu-Studio, Kubuntu, Xubuntu and since then Lubuntu too. NOTE: This `ubuntu-bug` report was filed on the only box (I'd noted at