------- Comment From mranw...@us.ibm.com 2020-04-07 13:06 EDT------- We did this from petitboot (the boot loader), the current daily-pending iso was loop mounted and available:
# wget http://ltc-wspoon3.aus.stglabs.ibm.com/mnt/casper/vmlinux Connecting to ltc-wspoon3.aus.stglabs.ibm.com (9.40.193.87:80) vmlinux 100% |********************************| 26.8M 0:00:00 ETA # wget http://ltc-wspoon3.aus.stglabs.ibm.com/mnt/casper/initrd.gz Connecting to ltc-wspoon3.aus.stglabs.ibm.com (9.40.193.87:80) initrd.gz 100% |********************************| 82.3M 0:00:00 ETA # md5sum vmlinux initrd.gz c3dcf1cff9d0f6cc649e8ce6cb9066eb vmlinux 185ba7de2818fc6ee47931342cd89f4d initrd.gz # kexec -l ./vmlinux --initrd=./initrd.gz --append="ip=9.3.90.144::9.3.90.1:255. 255.255.0:ltc-wcwsp3:enP5p1s0f0:none:9.3.1.200 url=http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubu ntu-server/daily-live/pending/focal-live-server-ppc64el.iso --quiet" # With this we aren't getting as far, when the iso comes up to the language selection screen I get: [ ERROR: hook /usr/share/apport/general-hooks/powerpc.py crashed: [ Asturianu ? ] Traceback (most recent call last): [ Catal? ? ] File "/snap/subiquity/1625/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 218, in _run_hook [ Nederlands ? ] symb['add_info'](report, ui) [ Suomi ? ] File "/usr/share/apport/general-hooks/powerpc.py", line 42, in add_info [ Deutsch ? ] is_kernel = report['ProblemType'].startswith('Kernel') or 'linux' in report.get('Package')] [ Magyar ? TypeError: argument of type 'NoneType' is not iterable [ Latvie?u ? ] ERROR: hook /usr/share/apport/general-hooks/powerpc.py crashed: ] [ Polski ?Traceback (most recent call last): [ ??????? ? ] File "/snap/subiquity/1625/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 218, in _run_hook [ ?????????? ? ] symb['add_info'](report, ui) File "/usr/share/apport/general-hooks/powerpc.py", line 42, in add_info is_kernel = report['ProblemType'].startswith('Kernel') or 'linux' in report.get('Package')e TypeError: argument of type 'NoneType' is not iterablee Ubuntu Focal Fossa (development branch) ubuntu-server hvc0 If I go and view error reports: ? Select an error report to view: ? ? ? ? DATE KIND STATUS ? ? [ Tue Apr 7 16:59:08 2020 Disk probe failure UNVIEWED ] ? ? [ Tue Apr 7 16:59:08 2020 Block device probe failure UNVIEWED ] ? ? [ ??? Disk probe failure UNVIEWED ] ? ? [ ??? Block device probe failure UNVIEWED ] ? ? [ ??? Disk probe failure UNVIEWED ] ? ? [ ??? Block device probe failure UNVIEWED ] ? ? ? ? [ Close ] ? ? ? Sorry, there was a problem examining the storage devices on this ? ? system. ? ? ? ? [ View full report ] Where I do see the error from the first screen again: Date: Tue Apr 7 16:59:08 2020 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04 ExecutablePath: /snap/subiquity/1625/usr/bin/subiquity HookError_powerpc: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/snap/subiquity/1625/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 218, in _run_hook symb['add_info'](report, ui) File "/usr/share/apport/general-hooks/powerpc.py", line 42, in add_info is_kernel = report['ProblemType'].startswith('Kernel') or 'linux' in report.get('Package') TypeError: argument of type 'NoneType' is not iterable And also: KeyError: 'MAJOR' 2020-04-07 16:59:08,491 DEBUG subiquity.core:369 generating crash report 2020-04-07 16:59:08,492 INFO subiquity.core:386 saving crash report 'block prob ing crashed with KeyError' to /var/crash/1586278748.491911650.block_probe_fail.c rash 2020-04-07 16:59:08,492 DEBUG root:39 start: subiquity/Filesystem/_probe/probe_ once: restricted=True 2020-04-07 16:59:08,492 DEBUG root:39 start: subiquity/Error/1586278748.4919116 50.block_probe_fail/add_info: 2020-04-07 16:59:08,519 DEBUG urllib3.connectionpool:396 http://localhost:None "GET /v2/find?select=refresh HTTP/1.1" 200 59 return fut.result() File "/snap/subiquity/1625/lib/python3.6/site-packages/subiquity/controllers/filesystem.py", line 119, in _probe_once self.app.prober.get_storage, probe_types) File "/snap/subiquity/1625/lib/python3.6/site-packages/subiquitycore/async_helpers.py", line 46, in run_in_thread return await loop.run_in_executor(None, func, *args) File "/snap/subiquity/1625/usr/lib/python3.6/concurrent/futures/thread.py", line 56, in run result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs) File "/snap/subiquity/1625/lib/python3.6/site-packages/subiquitycore/prober.py", line 60, in get_storage return Storage().probe(probe_types=probe_types) I did use the 'send to canonical'. The devices do appear at the shell, I can see the nvme using fdisk: Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 1.47 TiB, 1600321314816 bytes, 390703446 sectors Disk model: PCIe3 1.6TB NVMe Flash Adapter II x8 Units: sectors of 1 * 4096 = 4096 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disklabel type: gpt Disk identifier: 518B811D-B950-422D-9C29-7C31E82F9C82 Device Start End Sectors Size Type /dev/nvme0n1p1 256 2047 1792 7M PowerPC PReP boot /dev/nvme0n1p2 2048 390703359 390701312 1.5T Linux filesystem Let me know if I should add additional logs here, or if you have access to them via the installer send to. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1861655 Title: [Ubu 20.04][kernel-5.4.0-12-generic][WSP-DD2.3] Unable to install Ubu 20.4 on NVMe disk To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-power-systems/+bug/1861655/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs