| KaZeR_W | hi there. | 09:56 |
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| KaZeR_W | i'm still having some issues with preseed. i just installed a server using this network preseed : http://pastie.org/2871469 and after installation the host is using dhcp. what's wrong? | 09:57 |
| macer1 | hello | 11:18 |
| macer1 | what package is responsible for generating Ubuntu ISO's? | 11:19 |
| macer1 | I dont know what to assing my bug report. | 11:19 |
| macer1 | !bug 890151 | 11:20 |
| ubot2 | Launchpad bug 890151 in ubuntu "Ubuntu 11.10 ISOs after release, not bootable from pendrive on Macs." [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/890151 | 11:20 |
| brendand | macer1 has a problem installing 11.10 on a Mac, presumably with a USB stick created by usb-creator-gtk | 11:20 |
| cjwatson | the ubuntu-cdimage project (not package in Ubuntu) | 11:20 |
| cjwatson | oh, created by usb-creator | 11:20 |
| cjwatson | in that case, usb-creator | 11:20 |
| cjwatson | reassigned | 11:20 |
| cjwatson | I think this was already a known bug though | 11:20 |
| brendand | cjwatson - i would have thought so | 11:21 |
| macer1 | brendand the problem is that alphas and betas worked without problem :D | 11:21 |
| macer1 | I am writing this from 11.10 on my Mac :D | 11:21 |
| macer1 | I installed it some time ago, and updated to final. | 11:21 |
| cjwatson | I don't remember what specifically might have changed, sorry | 11:22 |
| macer1 | I am using dd to write images to pendrive, btw. | 11:22 |
| macer1 | Maybe do you have some ideas why it stopped booting? | 11:24 |
| cjwatson | sorry, I don't - I haven't tested Macs for some time | 11:24 |
| macer1 | ok, thanks :) | 11:24 |
| cjwatson | I'm due to get hold of one in a while and maybe I can look then | 11:25 |
| cjwatson | until then I'm afraid I can't help much | 11:25 |
| macer1 | Can I download an alpha 2 of oneiric? | 11:25 |
| cjwatson | no, those have all been archived | 11:26 |
| cjwatson | CD images take up a fiendish amount of space over time; we can only keep reasonably current releases available | 11:26 |
| macer1 | :/ | 11:27 |
| macer1 | I remember alpha 2 was booting perfectly. | 11:27 |
| macer1 | Maybe I am writing it wrong. | 11:29 |
| macer1 | dd if=ubuntu-oneiric.iso of=/dev/sdb | 11:30 |
| ev | (macer1 probably worth adding bs=1M - writing one byte at a time isn't going to be the fastest thing going) | 11:33 |
| brendand | cjwatson - well, i guess if he's dd'ing then it's not usb-creator | 11:34 |
| cjwatson | sure, then reassign to the ubuntu-cdimage project | 11:35 |
| cjwatson | (I'm working on other urgent things I'm afraid) | 11:35 |
| cjwatson | I don't believe that hybrid ISO booting on Mac EFI is expected to remotely work right now. If it ever did it was by luck | 11:36 |
| cjwatson | We need to pull in a giant wodge of weird stuff from Matthew Garrett to have a hope | 11:36 |
| cjwatson | But that needs to be done in xorriso upstream really | 11:36 |
| macer1 | cjwatson, why by luck :D? | 11:58 |
| macer1 | it was booting great grub2 efi | 11:58 |
| macer1 | and what weird stuff are you talking about :D? | 11:59 |
| cjwatson | http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/4957.html | 12:01 |
| cjwatson | since we have none of that work in Ubuntu images yet, any ability to boot on Mac EFI using an image dded to a USB stick was purely by luck, I'm afraid | 12:01 |
| macer1 | ... | 12:07 |
| macer1 | but...but...it was booting :( | 12:08 |
| cjwatson | I'm sorry, I don't really know what to tell you | 12:10 |
| macer1 | It is so complicated... | 12:11 |
| macer1 | Will it be fixed in 12.04? | 12:14 |
| cjwatson | I don't know; I need to discuss it with xorriso upstream | 12:20 |
| macer1 | ok thanks, you helped me a lot :) | 12:24 |
| mfl | hi there, I just ran into a problem with the latest ubuntu-installer from oneiric when booting the installer from a tftp-server | 15:29 |
| CarlFK | mfl: works for me - what's the problem ? | 15:30 |
| mfl | the first window just shows squares instead of chars already | 15:37 |
| mfl | as I can't read anything I wasn't brave enough to click anywhere, so I don't know if this only occurs in the first window... | 15:38 |
| mfl | CarlFK: any idea? | 15:38 |
| mfl | the append line is "append priority=low vga=788 initrd=ubuntu-installer/gtk/amd64/initrd.gz --" | 15:39 |
| CarlFK | here is my setup: https://github.com/CarlFK/veyepar/tree/master/setup/pxe | 15:39 |
| mfl | but I also tried "append priority=low video=vesa:ywrap,mtrr vga=788 initrd=ubuntu-installer/gtk/amd64/initrd.gz --" already, but the result is the same | 15:41 |
| CarlFK | if you sudo ./install.sh it will setup a working pxe server - but I would only do that if you are OK with it trashing your exising configs | 15:41 |
| mfl | hmm, that's kind of a problem | 15:42 |
| CarlFK | in the shaz dir are my configs.. you could cut/paste the key parts | 15:43 |
| mfl | the ubuntu-installer isn't the only part my tftpd serves | 15:43 |
| CarlFK | I would start by running "sudo shaz/root/getu.sh oneiric amd64" using my default | 15:45 |
| CarlFK | getu.sh does a wget'sthe kernel/initrd files | 15:45 |
| CarlFK | and puts them in a dir the tftp server where default uses them | 15:46 |
| mfl | nice, but I already did this manually... | 15:47 |
| CarlFK | um.. then it should work :) | 15:47 |
| mfl | downloaded the http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/oneiric/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/gtk/netboot.tar.gz, extracted the contents into the tftpboot and so on | 15:48 |
| CarlFK | yeah, you didn't do what I do | 15:48 |
| CarlFK | so.. | 15:48 |
| CarlFK | my suggestion: do what I do. | 15:48 |
| mfl | this used to work very nice for older ubuntu-installer versions, so I'm wondering what could have changed... | 15:49 |
| CarlFK | you must have more boxes around... run my ./install.sh on one of them, set your dhcp server to point at the test pxe stuff | 15:50 |
| KaZeR_W | can anyone help with preseeding? i'm having issues with the network config. it always uses dhcp, whatver i do | 15:51 |
| CarlFK | next-server testserver ; | 15:51 |
| mfl | yeah, I'll probably should give it a shot | 15:51 |
| mfl | CarlFK: sure, I used dhcp for network booting for more than 8 years now... :-) | 15:52 |
| mfl | but thanks anyway | 15:52 |
| CarlFK | KaZeR_W: how are you ..umm.. supplying the preseed file? | 15:53 |
| CarlFK | http, nfs, local file... | 15:53 |
| KaZeR_W | CarlFK, http | 15:55 |
| CarlFK | KaZeR_W: how are you setting the IP config? | 15:55 |
| mfl | one odd thing I stumbled upon during my investigations is that pxelinux.cfg/default includes ubuntu-installer/amd64/boot-screens/menu.cfg which includes ubuntu-installer/amd64/boot-screens/gtk.cfg, but the gtk.cfg file doesn't exist in the gtk's netboot.tar.gz ... | 15:56 |
| KaZeR_W | i'm booting the hosts via PXE. on my last try, i did : " append initrd=ubuntu-server/initrd.gz priority=critical auto=true url=... ip=..." | 15:57 |
| KaZeR_W | but the hosts used dhcp even during installation | 15:57 |
| CarlFK | KaZeR_W: pastbin your default | 15:58 |
| CarlFK | and preseed | 15:58 |
| KaZeR_W | CarlFK, http://pastie.org/2872867 | 16:00 |
| CarlFK | KaZeR_W: ip=10.151.2.7 | 16:09 |
| CarlFK | where are the docs that say that will do what you think it does? | 16:10 |
| CarlFK | https://help.ubuntu.com/11.10/installation-guide/i386/preseed-using.html might be here, I am digging around | 16:10 |
| CarlFK | KaZeR_W: ip= isn't listed under Aliases useful with preseeding | 16:11 |
| cjwatson | indeed, afaik that does not work with Ubuntu | 16:12 |
| KaZeR_W | CarlFK, honestly i have read a lot of differents docs about that i don't recall where i find this one. hang on i'm checking my history | 16:20 |
| KaZeR_W | CarlFK, might be this one : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=11452015 | 16:21 |
| KaZeR_W | there is ip=dhcp, so i assumed ip=<something static> should work | 16:21 |
| * cjwatson is speaking from looking at the code, regardless of what somebody said on the forums, | 16:22 | |
| CarlFK | KaZeR_W: ip=dhcp I think that is deceptive | 16:22 |
| cjwatson | ip=dhcp is a pxelinux option not an installer option | 16:22 |
| cjwatson | I think | 16:23 |
| cjwatson | oh, no, wait | 16:23 |
| cjwatson | Ah. ip= is a *kernel* option not an installer option; it's for NFS root. | 16:23 |
| KaZeR_W | ok. then how can one preseed a static network configuration? | 16:24 |
| CarlFK | KaZeR_W: try append ... netcfg/get_ipaddress=192.168.1.150 | 16:24 |
| KaZeR_W | ok | 16:24 |
| cjwatson | It is useless for configuring the installer. | 16:24 |
| cjwatson | The installation guide that CarlFK quoted earlier is authoritative - forums aren't | 16:24 |
| KaZeR_W | the installer works fine using dhcp, it's fine for me. i just need the right network conf to be applied afterward | 16:24 |
| KaZeR_W | thanks cjwatson. i'll review that guide | 16:25 |
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| GrueMaster | cjwatson: Is there a way to install an older distro with netinstall? I want to be able to install Maverick and Natty on armel omap4 for SRU testing and I can automate netinstall much easier than the preinstalled images. | 16:43 |
| KaZeR_W | i do not understand how the "killall.sh; netcfg" hack is supposed to work, in the Network configuration part of https://help.ubuntu.com/11.10/installation-guide/i386/preseed-contents.html | 16:43 |
| cjwatson | GrueMaster: just grab the matching netboot image | 16:43 |
| cjwatson | http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/netboot/ should have indexes of links for older releases | 16:44 |
| ogra_ | cjwatson, we didnt have netboot for some releases on arm | 16:44 |
| GrueMaster | cjwatson: We only started building netinstall images for omap4 in Oneriric. | 16:44 |
| cjwatson | then we would have to start building them for older releases too | 16:45 |
| GrueMaster | Personally, I think we need them for all supported platforms, even if we don't support the netinstaller. Makes automation much easier. | 16:45 |
| cjwatson | assuming the underlying code is there and it's just a matter of adding images | 16:45 |
| cjwatson | GrueMaster: well, yes, that's always been my position, but at the time the arm team disagreed that this was a priority | 16:45 |
| ogra_ | well, it is surely there in later releases | 16:45 |
| ogra_ | we would likely need to backport some bits | 16:45 |
| cjwatson | ogra_: it's a question of whether it's just a build system tweak, or whether it requires backporting actual installer code | 16:45 |
| cjwatson | the former is trivial, the latter not so much | 16:46 |
| ogra_ | well, the latter is likely totally arch specific | 16:46 |
| cjwatson | can you take care of it, whichever it is? | 16:46 |
| ogra_ | subarch even | 16:46 |
| cjwatson | there's no real point in me trying to do it, I don't know what's needed | 16:46 |
| ogra_ | hmm, k | 16:46 |
| cjwatson | worst case we could publish extra-archive images | 16:46 |
| KaZeR_W | in fact even the hostname isn't taken into account. it defaults to ubuntu | 16:47 |
| ogra_ | well, i would just be able to roll d-i locally with that change and give GrueMaster the image, i doubt we need it in the archive even | 16:48 |
| cjwatson | that part is a known bug | 16:48 |
| cjwatson | KaZeR_W: ^- | 16:48 |
| ogra_ | s/would/should/ | 16:49 |
| GrueMaster | I do have netinstall images for omap. I wonder if they would work if I just hammered in an omap4 kernel around them. | 16:49 |
| cjwatson | https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/netcfg/+bug/218965 | 16:49 |
| ubot2 | Launchpad bug 218965 in netcfg "preseeding hostname doesn't work in a network install" [High,Triaged] | 16:49 |
| cjwatson | GrueMaster: I would not be surprised to find problems | 16:49 |
| ogra_ | GrueMaster, unlikely | 16:49 |
| ogra_ | module udebs etc will break | 16:49 |
| cjwatson | ogra_: you could use a monolithic image if necessary (e.g. if you had to change flash-kernel) | 16:49 |
| ogra_ | yep | 16:50 |
| KaZeR_W | cjwatson, which part ? the hostname ? | 16:51 |
| ogra_ | GrueMaster, let me look at that tomorrow, for today i still need to babysit the live image build | 16:51 |
| cjwatson | yes | 16:51 |
| GrueMaster | ok | 16:51 |
| KaZeR_W | cjwatson, ok. but i still can't get my static network settings to be taken into account :) | 16:51 |
| ogra_ | tehoretically just movinf NCommander's scripts from oneiric into the older d-i builds (and possible add a newer flahs-kernel) should be enough | 16:51 |
| ogra_ | GrueMaster, which arches do you need, omap4 and mx5 ? or just omap4 | 16:52 |
| CarlFK | KaZeR_W: give me 20 min.. I'll try some things here | 16:53 |
| GrueMaster | omap4 for maverick & natty would be very helpful. imx53 for Oneiric+. | 16:53 |
| KaZeR_W | thanks CarlFK . i'll have to go afk for a moment, would you mind sending a pm so i can get your message later ? | 16:58 |
| CarlFK | append ... priority=critical netcfg/dhcp_options="Configure network manually" netcfg/get_ipaddress=192.168.0.2 | 20:23 |
| CarlFK | prompts me for netmask, defaulted to 255.255.255.0. shouldn't priority=critical make it use the default? | 20:24 |
| CarlFK | http://pastebin.com/eu5bpBQb full append line.. trimming stuff out to see if something is conflicting | 20:26 |
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