[Bug 1900773] Re: thunderx CRB systems tftp timeout downloading initrd

[Taihsiang Ho]

My apologies. The comment#9 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source
/livecd-rootfs/+bug/1900773/comments/9 used the grubnetaa64.efi from
focal http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-
ports/dists/focal/main/uefi/grub2-arm64/current/grubnetaa64.efi.signed

If d05 (d05-4) uses the groovy grub, it COULD reproduce this issue as
well.

So I would say the testing result of d05 is the same as d06 by @Ike.
    - grub from focal ---> not reproduce this issue
    - grub from groovy --> able to reproduce this issue

My next will be:
    - hide comment#9 to not confuse people
    - also try the initrd.lzma workaround

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Title:
  thunderx CRB systems tftp timeout downloading initrd

Status in Release Notes for Ubuntu:
  New
Status in grub2 package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in livecd-rootfs package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  groovy-live-server-arm64.iso 20201020.1

  When attempting to netboot subiquity on a Cavium ThunderX CRB2S, the
  system always times out downloading the initrd - see below. It seems
  the initrd, which is LZ4 compressed to 87M, is just too large. If I
  recompress the initrd using lzma - shrinking it to 44M, I am able to
  boot it. While that successfully works around the issue, I wouldn't
  expect the average user to know to do it.

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  error: timeout reading `initrd'.

  Press any key to continue...

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