[17:01] <fidencio> cyphermox: hey/ping
[17:03] <fidencio> cyphermox: tried here to perform an express installation on a livecd and, as recommended by you, passing "only-ubiquity automatic-ubiquity" to the command line
[17:04] <fidencio> it boots, but doesn't start the installer
[17:05] <fidencio> oh, it stopped and seems that I'm on ash. I can see (initramfs)
[17:05] <fidencio> the same preseed file that I'm using works properly for a server ISO
[17:08] <cyphermox> that shouldn't happen. even if the command-line is wrong you'd still get a live session or ubiquity on a desktop image, not just failing and dropping to the initramfs
[17:08] <cyphermox> any errors show up?
[17:10] <fidencio> nops, any obvious error.
[17:11] <fidencio> I'm trying with 15.10 live iso
[17:11] <fidencio> I know, maybe would be better to try with 16.04, but then it means adding support on something else on libosinf that I've been postponing :-)
[17:14] <cyphermox> it shouldn't be a big difference
[17:15] <cyphermox> clearly something is happening, but I don't know what. Maybe try removing only-ubiquity, and run ubiquity --automatic from the live session to see if at least that runs correctly?
[17:18] <fidencio> okay, let me give it a try
[17:31] <fidencio> cyphermox: yeah, uniquity --automatic works fine from a live session
[17:32] <fidencio> cyphermox: maybe a stupid question, does ubiquity understands debian-installer commands?
[17:32] <cyphermox> fidencio: ok, then does booting with just only-ubiquity work? that should get you the non-automatic, non-live (installer-only) session
[17:33] <cyphermox> fidencio: for the most part, yes, with some additions, and some features from d-i that we just don't expose (but you can still preseed)
[17:33] <cyphermox> that wouldn't get the installer to not start, though
[17:37] <fidencio> cyphermox: hmm. stops at busybox again
[17:37] <fidencio> cyphermox: any idea on how to check for some issue there?
[17:39] <cyphermox> I'm not sure, you should definitely see some error messages
[17:40] <cyphermox> maybe boot with verbose in case they're just hidden because of plymouth?
[17:40] <cyphermox> in any case, this means the issue isn't the preseed, but the environment itself
[17:41] <cyphermox> if you're netbooting; the paths for files tends to be different. It wouldn't cause it to work for live and not work for only-ubiquity though
[17:43] <fidencio> cyphermox: I'm not netbooting.
[17:43] <cyphermox> oh, I thought you were
[17:48] <fidencio> would it make any difference?
[17:52] <cyphermox> well, only if you did the paths wrong on tftp
[17:53] <cyphermox> fidencio: so, perhaps it's time to consider trying your preseeding with a 16.04 image?
[17:54] <fidencio> cyphermox: yeap, let me go for it. if it doesn't work I'll take as "preseed only server ISOs"
[17:58] <cyphermox> well, like I said, preseeding desktop installs is supposed to work too