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ProfMacI have a seed file that installs with lvm partitions on 14.04.3.  It is not totally clean, but it is at the point that I can match the results and /var/log/syslog, and make forward progress in modifying my preseed file.  Yeah!04:40
ProfMacThe biggest step forward was to quit trying to get 12.04.5 to respond meaningfully :-)04:41
CarlFKProfMac: hey there04:50
ProfMacCarlFK, hey there04:53
CarlFKmaybe you can help. I am installing to an ssd that shows up as Apr 21 04:21:05 frontend: --> SET partman-auto/disk /dev/nvme0n104:53
CarlFKbut I am getting  "no root filesystem defined"04:53
ProfMacoh lord.  I have known about preseeding for almost a week now...04:53
CarlFKwell, you are doing disky things.  I just try to go with the default04:54
ProfMacYep, I see that error a lot.  Do you know about running an xterm during the install, and running gedit /var/log/syslog to see what is happening while the install is still alive?04:55
CarlFKkinda  - all my installs use the text based installer.  so no x anything.. and I have a script that scp's all the logs and stuff to another box so I can use vim and whatever tools04:57
ProfMacAre you running the standard vanilla install from the distribution disk, or are you doing more customization.04:57
CarlFKoh, and cut/paste lines int irc. like up there04:57
ProfMacah.  You are more advanced than I am there.  I can't throw an xterm to another machine yet.04:58
CarlFKhttp://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/zesty/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/netboot.tar.gz04:58
CarlFKput that on what we will call the pxe server04:59
CarlFKtarget machie, bios set to pxe boot that04:59
ProfMacMy most recent misadventure with no root filesystem was when I somehow specified a lvm group, but never attached one of them to a physical disk.04:59
ProfMaccool.05:00
CarlFKthen the kernel append, preseed.cfg and those scripts all live on the server05:00
CarlFKI can edit, save, reboot the target, ... don't have to move usb sticks around05:00
ProfMacgot it.  sounds clever, and real work related.05:00
ProfMacThis is all too new for me to offer good advice, but the old approach of only change 1 thing, keep good logs, append unixtime to filenames, sort of at random led me to my first success, occurring as we speak.05:05
CarlFKyay!05:06
CarlFKwelp.. tried to install zesty... grub-installer didn't error, but bios says "insert boot device and hit any key"06:00
CarlFKbed time now.  will poke again tomorrow.06:02
ProfMacgood luck.06:14

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