ProfMac | I 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 |
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ProfMac | The biggest step forward was to quit trying to get 12.04.5 to respond meaningfully :-) | 04:41 |
CarlFK | ProfMac: hey there | 04:50 |
ProfMac | CarlFK, hey there | 04:53 |
CarlFK | maybe you can help. I am installing to an ssd that shows up as Apr 21 04:21:05 frontend: --> SET partman-auto/disk /dev/nvme0n1 | 04:53 |
CarlFK | but I am getting "no root filesystem defined" | 04:53 |
ProfMac | oh lord. I have known about preseeding for almost a week now... | 04:53 |
CarlFK | well, you are doing disky things. I just try to go with the default | 04:54 |
ProfMac | Yep, 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 |
CarlFK | kinda - 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 tools | 04:57 |
ProfMac | Are you running the standard vanilla install from the distribution disk, or are you doing more customization. | 04:57 |
CarlFK | oh, and cut/paste lines int irc. like up there | 04:57 |
ProfMac | ah. You are more advanced than I am there. I can't throw an xterm to another machine yet. | 04:58 |
CarlFK | http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/zesty/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/netboot.tar.gz | 04:58 |
CarlFK | put that on what we will call the pxe server | 04:59 |
CarlFK | target machie, bios set to pxe boot that | 04:59 |
ProfMac | My 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 |
ProfMac | cool. | 05:00 |
CarlFK | then the kernel append, preseed.cfg and those scripts all live on the server | 05:00 |
CarlFK | I can edit, save, reboot the target, ... don't have to move usb sticks around | 05:00 |
ProfMac | got it. sounds clever, and real work related. | 05:00 |
ProfMac | This 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 |
CarlFK | yay! | 05:06 |
CarlFK | welp.. tried to install zesty... grub-installer didn't error, but bios says "insert boot device and hit any key" | 06:00 |
CarlFK | bed time now. will poke again tomorrow. | 06:02 |
ProfMac | good luck. | 06:14 |
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