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------- Comment From raghuara at in.ibm.com 2019-09-18 05:15 EDT-------
We are installing on "Power 8"  system with daily build of "September 13, 2019".

We are not using samba to install OS ,we are directly copying ISO image
to VIOS and mapping to VSCSI optical drive and  initiating the
installation, This is the normal way of installation we followed even on
earlier Ubuntu levels(19.04,18.10,18.04 etc), we didn't had any issue
there,

Only with Ubuntu 19.10 with all ppc64le builds(daily builds that we got
so-far), we are struggling, however amd64 builds are successful.

The attachments we shared earlier are  showing the steps where we are
failing and the logs captured during the installation. Please do see the
attachments and let us know the way to come out of this struggle.

If needed we can have webex meeting to go through the installation.
.

------- Comment From mbringm at us.ibm.com 2019-09-26 09:27 EDT-------
Ubuntu:
We are installing on "Power 8"  system with daily build of "September 13, 2019".

We are not using samba to install OS ,we are directly copying ISO image
to VIOS and mapping to VSCSI optical drive and  initiating the
installation, This is the normal way of installation we followed even on
earlier Ubuntu levels(19.04,18.10,18.04 etc), we didn't had any issue
there,

Only with Ubuntu 19.10 with all ppc64le builds(daily builds that we got
so-far), we are struggling, however amd64 builds are successful.

The attachments we shared earlier are  showing the steps where we are
failing and the logs captured during the installation. Please do see the
attachments and let us know the way to come out of this struggle.

If needed we can have webex meeting to go through the installation.

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Title:
  Unable to install GRUB in /dev/sda1   on ppc64le for Ubuntu 19.10

Status in The Ubuntu-power-systems project:
  Incomplete
Status in base-installer package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  == Comment: #0 - Raghu N. Arava <raghuara at in.ibm.com> - 2019-09-11 06:31:02 ==
  Please find the attachment for the installation screen shots and the failing step

  == Comment: #3 - Raghu N. Arava <raghuara at in.ibm.com> - 2019-09-13 05:50:20 ==
  Logs are captured from Installation menu using "Save Debug Logs"

  == Comment: #6 - Raghu N. Arava <raghuara at in.ibm.com> - 2019-09-17
  03:56:11 ==

  ---Problem Description---
  ---------------------------------------------
  Ubuntu Installation failed due to failure in grub installation ,the system doesn't boot .currently the system is in the same state of installation failure.

  ---uname output---
  ---------------------------------------------
  ~ # uname -a
  Linux p8ct2p06 5.3.0-10-generic #11-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 9 15:08:08 UTC 2019 ppc64le GNU/Linux
  ~ #

  ---Machine Type---
  ---------------------------------------------
  Power 8 (ppc64le)

  ---boot type---
  ---------------------------------------------
  Legacy 

  ---bootloader---
  ---------------------------------------------
  grub

  ---Kernel cmdline used to launch install---
  ---------------------------------------------
  N/A

  ---Bootloader protocol---
  ---------------------------------------------

  ---Install repository type---
  ---------------------------------------------
  Image mounted via VSCSI optical drive

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