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--- Comment From poojabsu...@in.ibm.com 2017-01-20 06:07 EDT--- (In reply to comment #14) > How much memory does the system you're installing to have? Is is a partition > with less than 2 GB of memory? > > I'm doing my testing on virtual machines, and easily get I/o errors on them > if they use the default memory allocation on startup. If I specify to use > 2GB of memory, then I have no errors and the installation completes normally. Hi, This happens only on Baremetal, on Virtual machines it works fine. Memory is more than 2 gb on the system I am trying to install. ~ # free -g total used free shared buffers Mem: 133747840 5386304128361536 248704 3264 -/+ buffers:5383040128364800 Swap: 112516480 11251648 Thanks, Pooja -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1630017 Title: Ubuntu 16.10 installation with root as JFS file system fails To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-prep/+bug/1630017/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
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--- Comment From poojabsu...@in.ibm.com 2016-10-14 04:37 EDT--- (In reply to comment #8) > Oh, indeed. I hadn't seen it initially. > > sdj1 shouldn't have any kind of particular filesystem, so I'm not sure what > grub-install is trying to check there (I will look in the code now), or if > it's directly because the root is formatted in jfs. > > In the meantime, when this fails could you try running the following command > in a shell? You can access the shell from the debian-installer main menu > after the failure. > > chroot /target grub-install -v --force "/dev/sdj1" Attached the output of chroot /target grub-install -v --force "/dev/sdj1" . Thanks, Pooja -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1630017 Title: Ubuntu 16.10 installation with root as JFS file system fails To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-prep/+bug/1630017/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
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--- Comment From erwan.pri...@fr.ibm.com 2016-10-11 10:49 EDT--- I gave a try on a baremetal installation with the daily image available on October 9th. I didn't get the grub error on installation, but after the reboot, petitboot doesn't show the JFS partition (/dev/sda2) to boot from. I tried another run and just before the reboot, I installed grub manually from a shell. Here a snippet of the error message: ... grub-install: info: Partition 0 starts from 2048. grub-install: info: Partition 1 starts from 16384. grub-install: info: grub-mkimage --directory '/usr/lib/grub/powerpc-ieee1275' --prefix '(,gpt2)/boot/grub' --output '/boot/grub/powerpc-ieee1275/core.elf' --format 'powerpc-ieee1275' --compression 'auto' 'jfs' 'part_gpt' . grub-install: info: the total module size is 0x2a14. grub-install: info: reading /usr/lib/grub/powerpc-ieee1275/kernel.img. grub-install: info: locating the section .text at 0x0. grub-install: info: locating the section .rodata at 0xcd0c. grub-install: info: locating the section .eh_frame at 0xf23c. grub-install: info: locating the section .data at 0xf2e0. grub-install: info: locating the section .module_license at 0xffa0. grub-install: info: locating the section .sdata at 0xffc0. grub-install: info: locating the section .sbss at 0xffd0. grub-install: info: locating the section .bss at 0x10038. grub-install: info: reading /usr/lib/grub/powerpc-ieee1275/jfs.mod. grub-install: info: reading /usr/lib/grub/powerpc-ieee1275/part_gpt.mod. grub-install: info: kernel_img=0x10005288b90, kernel_size=0xffce. grub-install: info: the core size is 0x129e2. grub-install: info: writing 0x12b24 bytes. grub-install: info: copying `/boot/grub/powerpc-ieee1275/core.elf' -> `/boot/grub/grub'. grub-install: info: drive = 0. grub-install: info: the size of hostdisk//dev/sda is 3907029168. grub-install: error: the chosen partition is not a PReP partition. BTW, if I set the partition as ext4 or btrfs instead of JFS, it works. I mean, grub isn't installed (it couldn't as there is no Prep partition / there is no grub msg in dmesg) but petitboot shows the partition and I can boot from it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1630017 Title: Ubuntu 16.10 installation with root as JFS file system fails To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-prep/+bug/1630017/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
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--- Comment From poojabsu...@in.ibm.com 2016-10-04 01:15 EDT--- (In reply to comment #6) > Is this an installation done with manual partitioning? It seems to me like > this is an unsupported partitioning scheme. > > For ppc64el, GRUB typically expects a small (8Mb) partition at the start of > the disk to use as a location to install PReP. > > In this kind of cases, we should still have partman-prep warn the user about > the lack of a PReP partition, so there is a bug in this case if that doesn't > happen, regardless of whether this is manual or automatic partitioning. > > FWIW, I know that booting from petitboot is a slightly different > subarchitecture for d-i, but I haven't been able to find the special code > paths for it at a quick glance in partman; I will dig more once we have the > information requested above. Hi, Yes,this installation is done manually creating 3 partitions as below. 1.8mb-->PowerPC PReP boot partition 2.50 gb-->Swap 3.600 gb-->root as JFS file system ?? [!!] Partition disks ??? ? ? ? This is an overview of your currently configured partitions and mount ? ? points. Select a partition to modify its settings (file system, mount ? ? point, etc.), a free space to create partitions, or a device to ? ? initialize its partition table. ? ? ? ? Configure encrypted volumes ? ? Configure iSCSI volumes ?? ??? ? SCSI4 (0,0,0) (sdj) - 1.0 TB ATA ST1000NX0313?? ? > 1.0 MB FREE SPACE?? ? > #1 7.3 MBK? >> PowerPC PReP boot partition ? > #2 50.0 GBf swap swap ? ? > #3600.0 GBf jfs / ?? ? > 350.2 GB FREE SPACE?? ? SCSI5 (0,0,0) (sdk) - 1.0 TB ATA ST1000NX0313 ? ? ? ?? ? ? ??? for help; moves; selects; activates buttons ?? [!!] Install the GRUB boot loader on a hard disk ?? ? ? ? ?Unable to install GRUB in /dev/sdj1 ? ? ? ? Executing 'grub-install /dev/sdj1' failed. ? ? ? ?? ? ? Running "? This is a fatal error. ? ? ? ?? ? ? ? ?? ?? moves; selects; activates buttons Thanks, Pooja -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1630017 Title: Ubuntu 16.10 installation with root as JFS file system fails To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-prep/+bug/1630017/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
