LVM Issue

[Dmitrijs Ledkovs]

On 27 June 2013 03:52, Max Brustkern <max.brustkern at canonical.com> wrote:
> I've run a few installs on the same machine.  The first install is from a
> desktop image, and proceeds normally.
>
> The second install is from a netboot image, and proceeds normally.
>
> The third install runs on the same machine with the same preseed as the
> second, but appears to get stuck in a loop.  I'm currently running a fourth
> install to verify the loop does not resolve itself, but previous testing has
> typically resulted in the install timing out before that process resolves.
>

One shouldn't preseed
d-i partman-auto/select_disk
d-i partman-auto/automatically_partition boolean True

As those are interactive dialogs which well, end-up in a loop.

Instead of select_disk, one should preseed:
d-i partman-auto/disk

Nonetheless, even with correct lvm preseeds, subsequent installs fail
with "No root filesystem specified" which is quite unfortunate, given
that interactive dialogs see partman-auto/automatically_partition_init
and can select some_device_lvm recipe there.

It looks to me like another incarnation of the
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-auto-lvm/+bug/154086

As a crude workaround there is a very thorough way one can reinstall
same configuration lvm. See attached preseed file.....

Regards,

Dmitrijs.
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