Seth, I've installed your kernel in an image that wasn't booting on the instance type and validated that the test kernel from comment #12 does fix boot.
$ sudo ethtool -i ens3 driver: bnxt_en version: 1.9.1 firmware-version: 20.8.172.0/pkg 20.8.29.0 expansion-rom-version: bus-info: 0000:00:03.0 supports-statistics: yes supports-test: no supports-eeprom-access: no supports-register-dump: no supports-priv-flags: no $ uname -a Linux rcj-lp1790652-21 4.18.0-8-generic #9+lp1790652v201809170859 SMP Mon Sep 17 07:01:34 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ dmesg|grep bnx [ 2.366526] Broadcom NetXtreme-C/E driver bnxt_en v1.9.1 [ 2.384175] bnxt_en 0000:00:03.0 (unnamed net_device) (uninitialized): hwrm req_type 0xf seq id 0x5 error 0xffff [ 2.394757] bnxt_en 0000:00:03.0 eth0: Broadcom NetXtreme-E Ethernet Virtual Function found at mem 2000100000, node addr 00:00:17:02:42:58 [ 2.401353] bnxt_en 0000:00:03.0: 0.000 Gb/s available PCIe bandwidth, limited by Unknown speed x0 link at 0000:00:03.0 (capable of 63.008 Gb/s with 8 GT/s x8 link) [ 2.474211] bnxt_en 0000:00:03.0 ens3: renamed from eth0 [ 4.379763] bnxt_en 0000:00:03.0 ens3: NIC Link is Up, 25000 Mbps full duplex, Flow control: none [ 4.382846] bnxt_en 0000:00:03.0 ens3: FEC autoneg off encodings: None -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1790652 Title: Oracle cosmic image does not find broadcom network device in Shape VMStandard2.1 Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed Status in linux source package in Cosmic: Fix Committed Bug description: I tried to register and boot a cosmic image to verify new changes in it and in cloud-init. The image failed to bring up networking in the initramfs, and thus failed to find iscsi root. this could be user error. Here is what I did to publish the image. - use oci build tool [1]. following https://docs.cloud.oracle.com/iaas/Content/Compute/Tasks/imageimportexport.htm#ImportinganImage - Download a livefs build from cloudware https://launchpad.net/~cloudware/+livefs/ubuntu/cosmic/cpc/ example: livecd.ubuntu-cpc.oracle_bare_metal.img My image had version 20180821.1 - oci os bucket create --name=smoser-devel - oci os object put \ --parallel-upload-count=4 \ --part-size=10 \ --bucket-name=smoser-devel \ --file=/tmp/livecd.ubuntu-cpc.oracle_bare_metal.img \ --name=cosmic-20180821.1.img - import the object $ oci compute image import from-object \ --display-name=smoser-cosmic-20180821.1.img \ --launch-mode=NATIVE \ --namespace=intcanonical \ --bucket-name=smoser-devel \ --name=cosmic-20180821.1.img \ --source-image-type=QCOW2 Then I launched from the web UI a VM.Standard2.1. -- https://docs.cloud.oracle.com/iaas/Content/API/Concepts/cliconcepts.htm To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1790652/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp