[Bug 1729085] Re: Missing vNIC module in the installer

[Andrew Cloke]

** Also affects: ubuntu-power-systems
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: ubuntu-power-systems
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Canonical Foundations Team (canonical-foundations)

** Changed in: ubuntu-power-systems
   Importance: Undecided => High

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Title:
  Missing vNIC module in the installer

Status in The Ubuntu-power-systems project:
  New
Status in debian-installer package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Mirroring over for 18.04 installer.

  Canonical:  Please add the ibmvnic module to the installer for 18.04.

  Thank you.

  == Comment: #0 - YUECHANG E. MEI  - 2017-02-27 11:33:10 ==
  ---Problem Description---
  We tried to install ubuntu 16.04.2 by using vNIC. When we tried to load the installer, we saw an issue. Comment from bug 144675, it looks like the ibmvnic module is not included in 16.04.2 or 17.04 installer. 

                    GNU GRUB  version 2.02~beta2-vlan1

   +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
   | Install Ubuntu 17.04 GA w/ multipath and preseed                           |
   | Install Ubuntu 17.04 GA w/ multipath                                       |
   | Install Ubuntu 17.04 GA w/ preseed                                         |
   |*Install Ubuntu Yakkety (16.10 development)                                 |
   | Install Ubuntu Yakkety (16.10 w/ multipath)                                |
   | Install Ubuntu 16.04 GA                                                    |
   | Install Ubuntu 16.04 GA w/ multipath                                       |
   | Install Ubuntu 16.04 GA w/ preseed                                         |
   | Install Ubuntu 16.04 GA w/ multipath and preseed                           |
   | Install Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS                                                 |
   | Install Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS                                                 |
   | Rescue mode                                                                |
   +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

        Use the ^ and v keys to select which entry is highlighted.
        Press enter to boot the selected OS, `e' to edit the commands
        before booting or `c' for a command-line.


     ?????????????? [!!] Download debconf preconfiguration file ??????????????
     ?                                                                       ?
     ?             Failed to retrieve the preconfiguration file              ?
     ? The file needed for preconfiguration could not be retrieved from      ?
     ? http://10.33.11.31/distros/ubuntu/preseed.cfg. The installation will  ?
     ? proceed in non-automated mode.                                        ?
     ?                                                                       ?
     ?                              <Continue>                               ?
     ?                                                                       ?
     ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
  but then we cannot go any further...drop to the shell and we do not see any ibmvnic loaded, try to load it is not found. 

  ~ # lsmod|grep ibm
  ibmveth                31190  0
  ~ # modprobe ibmvnic
  modprobe: FATAL: Module ibmvnic not found in directory /lib/modules/4.4.0-21-generic
  ~ #
   
  ---boot type---
  Network boot
   
  ---bootloader---
  grub
   
  ---Point of failure---
  Failed during boot of installer

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