[Bug 1667605] Re: Installer fail to load kernel modules when using kickstart

[Brian Murray]

** Tags added: yakkety

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Title:
  Installer fail to load kernel modules when using kickstart

Status in debian-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  ## Ubuntu version ##
  ubuntu-16.10-server-amd64

  ## Environment ##
  VirtualBox 5.1.6

  ## Problem description ##
  Ubuntu server installer fail to load kernel modules when a kickstart file is used as boot parameter. The installer is then unable to detect network interfaces (because module e1000 is not loaded) and fail
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  ## How to reproduce ##
  The bug happens with VirtualBox but also with all physical machines I tested the kickstart installation on.
  To reproduce this bug you just have to start a new VirtualBox Linux VM and start a new ubuntu server installation with boot option "ks=http://foo.bar/ks.cfg"
  https://ibin.co/3DTkQZRuGLZN.jpg

  Here is the command line used to boot (more information available within the attached syslog file): 
  Kernel command line: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu-server.seed vga=788 initrd=/install/initrd.gz DEBCONF_DEBUG=5 ks=http://foo.bar/ks.cfg ---  keyboard-configuration/layoutcode=fr keyboard-

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