Issue install 20.04 with autoinstall

[Jerry Geis]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 12:56 PM Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 3:28 PM Jerry Geis <jerry.geis at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks - I tried this - It stops with the same error:
> >
> > AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'grub_device'
> >
> > The VM I'm trying to install on looks like:
> >
> > Disk /dev/sda: 128.8 GB, 128849018880 bytes, 251658240 sectors
> > Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
> > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
> > Disk label type: dos
> > Disk identifier: 0x000d8b93
> >
> >    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> > /dev/sda1   *        2048     2099199     1048576   83  Linux
> > /dev/sda2         2099200   251658239   124779520   8e  Linux LVM
>
> 1) How are you ending up with an LVM partition? You must be using a
> different "storage:" section.
>
> 2) I ran "fdisk -l" in the VM that I'd created, and it wasn't what I'd
> requested in the autoinstall file. It seems that you can use
>
>   storage:
>     layout:
>
> or
>
>   storage:
>     config:
>
> and I used both in my user-data. "layout:" that won the day, and all
> that I had was a biosboot partition and a root partition.
>
> This did the right thing:
>
>   storage:
>     config:
>       - id: disk0
>         type: disk
>         match:
>           size: largest
>         ptable: gpt
>         grub_device: true
>         wipe: superblock
>       - id: disk0-biosboot
>         type: partition
>         flag: bios_grub
>         device: disk0
>         size: 1MB
>       - id: disk0-boot
>         type: partition
>         device: disk0
>         size: 512MB
>       - id: disk0-root
>         type: partition
>         device: disk0
>         size: -1
>       - id: disk0-boot-fs
>         type: format
>         volume: disk0-boot
>         fstype: ext4
>       - id: disk0-root-fs
>         type: format
>         volume: disk0-root
>         fstype: ext4
>       - id: disk0-boot-mount
>         type: mount
>         device: disk0-boot-fs
>         path: "/boot"
>       - id: disk0-root-mount
>         type: mount
>         device: disk0-root-fs
>         path: "/"
>
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HI Tom,

I am "starting" with a previous linux install. That is what the fdisk is
from above.
I am editing the /etc/grub.d/40_custom - adding my menu, setting the
default /etc/default/grub to run my custom install and of course all my
values are set
for autoinstall, ds=XXX ip=dhcp url=XXX  - this settings seem fine as its
downloading my file , and downloading the live-server iso (I see all that
on screen and have verified in the installer log).

Thanks,

Jerry
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