Call for Testing: Ubuntu Server Quantal

[George Dunlap]

FWIW:
* The 32-bit version from Quantal works
* The 64-bit version from Precise works
* The sizes of the initrd.gz in the main directory of the mirror seems
to be a different size than the one in the netboot.tar.gz
 - http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/quantal/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/ubuntu-installer/amd64/initrd.gz
is 18314502 bytes
 - In http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/quantal/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/netboot.tar.gz,
the file ubuntu-installer/amd64/initrd.gz is 32723375 bytes

Is it possible the initrd.gz for the 64-bit version got corrupted somehow?

 -George

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 11:22 AM, George Dunlap <dunlapg at umich.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 12:16 AM, Clint Byrum <clint at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> Excerpts from George Dunlap's message of 2012-09-20 09:45:28 -0700:
>>> I just spent 10 minutes trying to figure out how to *actually report a
>>> bug* on launchpad, and I give up.
>>>
>>
>> Hi George. There are two easy ways. If you are reporting a bug on a running
>> system, just run
>>
>> ubuntu-bug [package name]
>>
>> The package name is optional, but highly recommended so that apport knows
>> what extra info to attach.
>>
>> Since you are reporting installer errors that might be hard to do, so go here:
>>
>> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu
>>
>> And click "report a bug" on the right side.
>
> ...that takes me to this wiki page, which proved singularly unhelpful
> in my circumstances:
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs
>
> Perhaps there's been a mistake, or perhaps some overly-zealous person
> has decided that all bug reports need to come through "ubuntu-bug" or
> something like that?
>
>>> The netboot images for amd64 appear to be broken -- they don't work on
>>> either of my two test boxes (one an AMD, one an Intel).  The AMD
>>> hangs, the Intel reboots.  Below is the config I'm using:
>>>
>>> label ubuntu-quantal-amd64
>>>     kernel ubuntu-quantal-amd64/linux
>>>         append vga=normal initrd=ubuntu-quantal-amd64/initrd.gz -- quiet
>>>
>>> The files in question were just downloaded today:
>>>
>>> -rw-r--r--   1 mikemc xendev 9306616 Sep 20 16:39 initrd.gz
>>> -rw-r--r--   1 mikemc xendev 5127712 Sep 20 16:39 linux
>>
>>
>> Can you give more information on the details of your hardware so others can
>> try to reproduce?
>
> I wasn't sure what information would be helpful, and since it's failed
> on two completely different kinds of processors, I figured it should
> be easy to reproduce.  Has anyone gotten it to work?
>
> In any case, attached are the out put of "cpuid" and "dmesg" for my
> AMD and Intel boxes when booted on the existing installations.
> Unfortunately there's no serial output.
>
> Thanks,
>  -George