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* Build against grub-efi-amd64 1.99-21ubuntu3.14 (LP: #1065281).
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* Handle FAT filesystems on non-512B disks (LP: #1065281).
* Probe FusionIO devices (LP: #1237519).
* On Linux, read partition start offsets from sysfs if possible
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* Automatic update of included source packages: partman-
basicfilesystems 71ubuntu3.4. (LP: #978032)
ubiquity (2.10.27) precise; urgency=low
* Automatic update of included source
This bug was fixed in the package partman-base - 153ubuntu6
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* Use the device's logical sector size throughout rather than
PED_SECTOR_SIZE_DEFAULT (LP: #1065281).
-- James M LeddyFri, 08 Nov 2013 17:57:33 +
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* Pass "-s 1" to mkdosfs if the logical sector size is not equal to 512
bytes, since mkdosfs has trouble with cluster calculations otherwise
(LP: #1065281).
-- Col
This bug was fixed in the package efibootmgr - 0.5.4-2ubuntu1.1
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* Apply Fedora patch (efibootmgr-0.5.4-support-4k-sectors.patch) to
support non-512-byte logical sectors (LP: #1065281).
-- James M LeddyWed, 13 Nov 2013 1
We may need to deal with this at some point, but it can safely be
ignored for now; any writes will just be for the environment block,
which isn't critical functionality (and is already documented as missing
in some profiles).
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** Tags added: verification-done
With today's Precise Server image I can now boot the Operating System!
I do, however, see one seemingly minor error pop up as soon as I select
Ubuntu in the gru menu:
error: efidisk write error
Press any key to continue
The system will boot up after about 10 seconds.
I'm wondering if it i
Hello Kent, or anyone else affected,
Accepted grub2 into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be
available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/1.99-21ubuntu3.14
in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.
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https://wiki
Aha, got it: the efidisk module is working but the FAT file system
support isn't quite right, so it's just the EFI System Partition that
GRUB has trouble reading. The missing commit is this one, which is in
2.00 thus explaining why this works in more recent releases:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/g
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a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.
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Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Tried with today's Precise Server Build.
The good:
1) No installer crashes.
2) Disk is prooperly detected as 1TB in size
3) I have an ubuntu entry to boot from in the EFI boot menu
The bad:
Dropped to a grub prompt at boot time. I can, however, boot the OS manually by
providing grub with the pa
Oh, so the size increase only applies for 4k drives? I suppose that's
ok then, I was just worried that half a gig was significant on a 16 gb
ssd.
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Please note that my first name contains only one "l", not two.
I don't consider it important - 4k/4k sector hard disks used on UEFI
systems are not going to be so uncomfortably tiny that it makes much of
a difference in practice, and it's much more important to get this
high-priority bug fixed so
Collin, rather than waste more disk space why not fix the real bug in
mkdosfs ( in that it fails to switch to fat16 at < 133 MB )?
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Tomorrow's precise daily build should finally be worth testing for this.
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Note that this is still missing the last currently-known piece, namely
efibootmgr. I'll review James' branch for that by tomorrow at the
latest.
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Wait, what? Why does it need to be 512 MB now? I already thought that
100 MB was absurdly large.
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This bug was fixed in the package partman-auto - 101ubuntu2.1
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* Bump EFI partition size range to 512-1024MB, in line with Debian; 100MB
is too small on a disk with 4KiB logical sectors (LP: #1065281).
-- Colin WatsonThu,
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I tried today's build (Oct 4th) and realized that partman-base hasn't
had its fixes ported to precise yet (whoops), which means the 1TB disk
is still only showing up as 125GB.The efibootmgr stuff also needs to
be ported (I think).
I'll wait until those fixes get pushed into 12.04 before contin
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Tested today's 12.04 builds that contain what appears to be the bulk of
the grub2 version 1.99-21ubuntu3.11 packages.
Install completes without crashing, but, I still end up with no 'ubuntu'
entry in the EFI boot menu. I can navigate to the grubx64.efi file on
the hard disk via EFI boot menu, tho
grub2-signed (1.20) saucy; urgency=low
* Rebuild against grub-efi-amd64 2.00-19ubuntu1.
-- Colin Watson Thu, 19 Sep 2013 11:01:28 +0100
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Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Status: New => Fix Released
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It probably isn't worth retesting 12.04 until I've backported the grub2
change, at least.
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I tried today's build of 12.04, which seemed to have the two fixes
committed yesterday.
The installer completed OK, but, it appears that the EFI boot entry
somehow didn't get set..In other words, the server couldn't find
anything to boot from and, upon further inspection, there was no
'ubuntu' ent
For 13.10, I confirmed that the new grub2 packages allow us to fully
boot into the operating system (yay!!).
This is true for both LVM and non-LVM auto-partitioning options.
Thanks for all of your help, Colin.
I'll also test what fixes are present for 12.04.
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and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-
efi/25ubuntu1.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.
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https
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Accepted partman-auto into precise-proposed. The package will build now
and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-
auto/101ubuntu2.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.
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ht
This bug was fixed in the package grub2 - 2.00-19ubuntu1
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* Resynchronise with Debian. Remaining changes:
- Default to hiding the menu; holding down Shift at boot will show it.
- Add crashkernel option.
- Bypass menu unless o
** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => High
** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Fix Committed
** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin Watson (cjwatson)
** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu Precise)
Importance: Undecided => High
** Changed
** Branch linked: lp:~ubuntu-core-dev/ubuntu/saucy/grub2/saucy
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I'm necessarily flying blind, but that Fedora patch looks like an
excellent candidate: it would affect GRUB's detection of where it was
booted from, which could cause it to fail to find its configuration
file. I'd prefer to backport the commit that ended up upstream (r4795)
rather than the one lin
This bug was fixed in the package partman-efi - 25ubuntu5
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* Pass "-s 1" to mkdosfs if the logical sector size is not equal to 512
bytes, since mkdosfs has trouble with cluster calculations otherwise
(LP: #1065281).
-- Colin Wat
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Right, I knew I hadn't quite got all the way. The partman-efi changes
for "mkdosfs -s 1" (now that I've understood why that's needed) are on
their way in now, and I'll start looking into what's wrong with GRUB.
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** Changed in: partman-efi (Ubuntu)
Status: Fix Released => Triaged
** Changed in: partman-efi (Ubuntu Precise)
Status: Fix Released => Triaged
** Changed in: partman-efi (Ubuntu Precise)
Milestone: ubuntu-12.04.3 => ubuntu-12.04.4
** Changed in: partman-efi (Ubuntu Quantal)
With the latest fixes on 13.10 I still fail to boot the OS, even with a
larger FAT32 EFI partition in place. In other words the server cannot
find anything to boot from and asks me to press F1 to try again, F11 to
return to the EFI boot menu, etc.
**HOWEVER**
If I restart the installation and ed
Logs from an installation where 50format_efi was modified with the "-s
1" option for mkdosfs. This allowed the server to drop us to a grub
prompt and boot the OS by hand with a few grub commands. I'm guessing
grub2 might also need some work. Possibly this patch would help?
http://osdir.com/ml/s
Logs from an unmodified 50format_efi.
Note the warning in the syslog:
Sep 13 19:28:14 partman: WARNING: Not enough clusters for a 32 bit FAT!
...it appears to try and create the filesystem anyway, but, apparently
it's in a state that the EFI firmware on the server can't understand
when it comes
This bug was fixed in the package partman-auto - 107ubuntu2
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partman-auto (107ubuntu2) saucy; urgency=low
* Bump EFI partition size range to 512-1024MB, in line with Debian; 100MB
is too small on a disk with 4KiB logical sectors (LP: #1065281).
-- Colin WatsonThu, 12 Sep
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Importance: Undecided => High
** Changed in: partman-auto (Ubuntu)
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** Changed in: partman-auto (Ubuntu)
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This bug was fixed in the package partman-efi - 25ubuntu1.1
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* Use mkdosfs to create FAT filesystems, since libparted cannot handle
doing that on non-512-sector disks (LP: #1065281).
-- Colin WatsonWed, 23 Jan 2013 13:23:10
This bug was fixed in the package partman-basicfilesystems - 71ubuntu3.1
---
partman-basicfilesystems (71ubuntu3.1) precise; urgency=low
* Use mkdosfs to create FAT filesystems, since libparted cannot handle
doing that on non-512-sector disks (LP: #1065281).
-- Colin Watson
This bug was fixed in the package partman-efi - 25ubuntu2.1
---
partman-efi (25ubuntu2.1) quantal; urgency=low
* Use mkdosfs to create FAT filesystems, since libparted cannot handle
doing that on non-512-sector disks (LP: #1065281).
-- Colin WatsonWed, 23 Jan 2013 13:25:11
This bug was fixed in the package dosfstools - 3.0.13-1ubuntu0.1
---
dosfstools (3.0.13-1ubuntu0.1) quantal; urgency=low
* Add dosfstools-udeb package, mainly so that we can use mkdosfs in d-i
instead of deprecated and semi-broken libparted code (LP: #1065281).
-- Colin Watson
This bug was fixed in the package partman-basicfilesystems - 74ubuntu1.1
---
partman-basicfilesystems (74ubuntu1.1) quantal; urgency=low
* Use mkdosfs to create FAT filesystems, since libparted cannot handle
doing that on non-512-sector disks (LP: #1065281).
-- Colin Watson
This bug was fixed in the package dosfstools - 3.0.12-1ubuntu1.1
---
dosfstools (3.0.12-1ubuntu1.1) precise; urgency=low
* Add dosfstools-udeb package, mainly so that we can use mkdosfs in d-i
instead of deprecated and semi-broken libparted code (LP: #1065281).
-- Colin Watson
Reading through the bug log, it appears that the fixes currently staged
in precise-proposed are all necessary, but not sufficient, for getting
the system to install and boot with 4k disks. Since the validation
being done to date for 12.04.3 is with images that include these
packages, and since 12.
For 12.04.3, I can also successfully boot using the steps above, along
with feeding the correct commands to grub at the grub prompt. The only
difference is that I have to apply the patches to partman-base, partman-
utils, and efibootmgr. Those fixes are in 13.04 and above, but, not in
precise (ye
For 13.10, so far, this seems to be the way to get these disks to boot:
1) Prior to installation, carve out a partition of at least 133MB in parted
using a GPT partition table. Toggle the boot flag.
2) Format the disk using 'mkdosfs -s 1 /dev/sda1'
3) Start up the server installer.
4) Select man
I can get the system to successfully boot from the grub prompt by
running:
grub> linux (hd0,gpt2)/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2
grub> initrd (hd0,gpt2)/initrd.img
grub> boot
This was done during my experiments with creating a 266MB fat32 fs on
the EFI system partition. What I'd like to try next is a sl
I'll also be trying this again with 266MB for the EFI system partition. The
reason is because Stuart earlier mentioned that the minimum “proper” FAT32
partition (at least 64K clusters) is ~133MB—it is actually ~266MB. He
multiplied incorrectly. It
is ~33MB for 512-byte sectors, so it is ~33MB
The above experiment was also performed with today's 12.04.3 builds and
patched versions of efibootmgr and partman-base. I can also
automatically boot to a grub prompt with 12.04.3 using a 133MB EFI
partition formatted with mkfs.vfat -s 1.
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I ran some experiments today and this so far seems to be the 'sweet
spot' with regard to the EFI system partition:
1) Before installing, I created a 133MB partition on my gpt disk using parted,
type FAT32 and bootable.
2) I formatted the partition using "mkfs.vfat -s1 /dev/sda1"
3) Booted to the
Another update from Stuart regarding mkdosfs/mkfs.vfat that may be
relevant and it may lend some ammo to possibly adding the "-s 1" flag to
the mkdosfs command mentioned above?
"So it looks like mkdosfs / mkfs.vfat is calculating an initial guess
for "bs.cluster_size" (the internal variable name)
@James, Thanks. I'll be ready to look at your changes at any time.
An additional note:
I was also able to repeat Stuart's work in a pure Ubuntu
environment...there is one trick, though, and we might want to consider
using it in the installer. Here's what I did:
1) Installed Ubuntu 13.10 and v
Should have mentioned, I've compile tested both of these changes
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I've merged some changes from the raring branches of efimgr and partman
into my own bzr branch. I'm subscribing -sponsors in the hopes that we
can get this in for 12.04.3, or 12.04.4 at the very latest. The odds are
good that enterprise users that are actually using these disks are going
to be on L
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Installer crashed when trying to partition 4k/4k sector hard disks
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** Branch linked: lp:~jm-leddy/ubuntu/precise/partman-base/4k-sectors
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Title:
Installer crashed when trying to partition 4k/4k sector hard disks
Here's what parted sees from a successful RHEL6.4 install:
NumberStart End Size File system Name
Flags
11049KB211MB 210MB
boot
2211MB 735MB524MB
Here is the crash file from 13.10 when selecting lvm in the partitioning
phase. parted_server is what segfaults.
** Attachment added: "_bin_parted_server.0.crash"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/oem-priority/+bug/1065281/+attachment/3766384/+files/_bin_parted_server.0.crash
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Here is the specific commit for partman-base that needs to be ported to
12.04:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/partman-
base/ubuntu/revision/1377
For efibootmgr, it is this one:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/raring/efibootmgr
/raring-proposed/revision/17
Both
We also ran into another segfault with 13.10 when trying to auto-
partition with LVM on these drives. I'll attach a crash file in a
little while. Auto-partitioning without LVM works fine.
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For 12.04.3, we'll also need whatever fixes are necessary for the fat32
system partition plus these two fixes so that 4k drives are handled
correctly. The partman-base fix should take care of the installer not
properly detecting the size of the disk.
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partman-base (163ubuntu2) rar
We got some additional help from Stuart Hayes at Dell. After some
analysis and testing, he got the 4k drive to boot by creating a larger
fat32 partition than what we're creating right now:
The version of Ubuntu that you gave me (13.10) was creating a FAT32
filesystem (on the EFI system partition)
It turns out that BIOS mode is not expected to work with these disks and
that getting this to work with GPT and EFI will be the expected path
going forward.
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