Help with autoinstall

[Jerry Geis]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 8:27 AM Jerry Geis <jerry.geis at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have been using autoinstall for a while now... So 'seems' everything is
> working.
>
> however - I am working on this one machine - I'm using the same script to
> setup GRUB, and reboot, and start installing Ubunutu 20.04. However on this
> machine it stops autoinstall and shows me the Language screen.
>
> So i got the console and change to the /var/log/installer directory -
> "grep -i fail" and all I see are references to
> subiquity/Refresh/check_for_update: FAIL: cancelled.
>
> Why am I getting the language screen ???
>
> Thanks,
>
> jerry
>



I was able to grab more data...
My grub boot line is :
root=/dev/ram0 ramdisk_size=1500000 LS_mediacontroller nouveau.modeset=0
fsck.mode=skip autoinstall 'ds=nocloud-net;s=http://MYIP/autoinstall/'
ip=dhcp url=http://MYIP/autoinstall/ubuntu-20.04.2-live-server-amd64.iso
cloud-config-url=http://MYIP/autoinstall/meta-data  --- splash
nouveau.modeset=0

In the cloud-init.log file I can see it download the iso file, I can see it
download the meta-data file (which is 0 length as suggested), I do not see
it download or ask for the user-data file ???

I use this "same" command(s) to do a number of machines to remotely install
Ubuntu 20.04 - this one is not working I'm trying to find out why.

So looks like autoinstall begins  - but exists because there is not data.
(the file is present on my server and has all my commands just like I have
used before).

/var/lib/cloud/seed/nocloud/user-data is an empty file also.

Any thoughts/ suggestions ?

Jerry
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