ok. so i can reproduce this on both arm64 and ppc64el. On ppc64el, both on trusty and on utopic. Adding '-initrd <extracted-initramfs>' fixes the problem.
Heres an improved copy/paste to recreate. It does *not* fail on (arch=amd64). arch=ppc64el rel=trusty tgz_url=http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/$rel/current/${rel}-server-cloudimg-${arch}.tar.gz tgz=${tgz_url##*/} qemu=qemu-system-${arch} [ "$arch" = "amd64" ] && qemu="qemu-system-x86_64" [ "$arch" = "ppc64el" ] && qemu="qemu-system-ppc64" [ -f "$tgz" ] || { wget "${tgz_url}" -O "$tgz.part" && mv "$tgz.part" "$tgz"; } mkdir -p dist ( cd dist && ls *$rel*$arch*.img 2>/dev/null ) || tar -C dist -Sxvzf "$tgz" dist_disk=$(echo dist/*$rel*$arch*.img) kernel=$(echo dist/*$rel*$arch*vmlinu?*) cat > user-data <<EOF #cloud-config password: passw0rd chpasswd: { expire: False } ssh_pwauth: True EOF echo "instance-id: $(uuidgen || echo i-abcdefg)" > meta-data cloud-localds seed.img user-data meta-data qemu-img create -f qcow2 -b "$dist_disk" disk.img # on intel: $qemu -enable-kvm \ -net nic -net user,hostfwd=tcp::2222-:22 \ -drive file=disk.img,if=virtio -drive file=seed.img,if=virtio \ -kernel "${kernel}" -append "root=/dev/vda ro" -curses # on ppc64el $qemu -m 1G -enable-kvm -machine pseries,usb=off -device spapr-vscsi \ -device spapr-vlan,netdev=net00 -netdev type=user,id=net00 \ -drive file=disk.img,if=virtio -drive file=seed.img,if=virtio \ -kernel "$kernel" -append "root=/dev/vda console=hvc0 ro --verbose" \ -display none -nographic -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to cloud-init in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1377308 Title: booting cloud image without initramfs broken To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/1377308/+subscriptions -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs
