MAAS Curtin Issues

[Blake Rouse]

Tom,

Did you re-commission after changing the machine from UEFI to Legacy?

Thanks,
Blake

On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 9:39 AM, Tom Barber <tom at spicule.co.uk> wrote:

> (sorry, Xenial hosts, MAAS 2.1)
>
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 2:38 PM, Tom Barber <tom at spicule.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hi folks
>>
>> I'm testing MAAS on an UDOO X86 and have 99% of it working.
>>
>> I disabled UEFI to get stuff working smoother, now machines commission,
>> they switch on and off etc, but when I tell it to boot into ubuntu I get an
>> error from curtin:
>>
>>
>> Creating config file /etc/default/grub with new version
>>  Generating grub configuration file ...
>>  Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.8.0-58-generic
>>  Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.8.0-58-generic
>>  /run/lvm/lvmetad.socket: connect failed: No such file or directory
>>  WARNING: Failed to connect to lvmetad. Falling back to internal scanning.
>>  /dev/mmcblk0rpmb: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 4128768: Input/output
>> error
>>  /dev/mmcblk0rpmb: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 4186112: Input/output
>> error
>>  /dev/mmcblk0rpmb: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error
>>  /dev/mmcblk0rpmb: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 4096: Input/output error
>>  done
>>  Setting up grub-gfxpayload-lists (0.7) ...
>>  Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu9) ...
>>  Processing triggers for systemd (229-4ubuntu17) ...
>>  Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19) ...
>>  Processing triggers for dbus (1.10.6-1ubuntu3.3) ...
>>  Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 3.8 GiB (4046450688
>> <(404)%20645-0688> bytes)
>>  no label, UUID=d23e4cfb-d777-4ef1-83c8-6477a6519b88
>>  Unexpected error while running command.
>>  Command: ['sh', '-c', 'exec "$0" "$@" 2>&1', 'install-grub',
>> '/tmp/tmpkw3_14iy/target', '/dev/mmcblk0']
>>  Exit code: 1
>>  Reason: -
>>  Stdout: + pkg=grub-pc
>>  + shift
>>  + dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc
>>  Replacing config file /etc/default/grub with new version
>>  Generating grub configuration file ...
>>  Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.8.0-58-generic
>>  Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.8.0-58-generic
>>  done
>>  + update-grub
>>  Generating grub configuration file ...
>>  Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.8.0-58-generic
>>  Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.8.0-58-generic
>>  done
>>  + grub-install /dev/mmcblk0
>>  Installing for i386-pc platform.
>>  grub-install: warning: this GPT partition label contains no BIOS Boot
>> Partition; embedding won't be possible.
>>  grub-install: warning: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be
>> installed in this setup by using blocklists. However, blocklists are
>> UNRELIABLE and their use is discouraged..
>>  grub-install: error: will not proceed with blocklists.
>>  + exit
>>  failed to install grub!
>>
>>
>> If I install Centos though it runs fine. Clearly its unhappy about the
>> internal MMC disk partitioning but its only the defaults and a manual
>> install of Xenial works fine.
>>
>> Anyone got anything I could tweak to see if it gets further?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Tom Barber
>> CTO Spicule LTD
>> tom at spicule.co.uk
>>
>> http://spicule.co.uk
>>
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>>
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>>
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>>
>
>
>
> --
> Tom Barber
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> tom at spicule.co.uk
>
> http://spicule.co.uk
>
> @spiculeim <http://twitter.com/spiculeim>
>
> Schedule a meeting with me <http://meetme.so/spicule>
>
> GB: +44(0)5603641316 <+44%2056%200364%201316>
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>
> <https://leanpub.com/juju-cookbook>
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