Ubuntu install using custom kernel

[Eric Desrochers]

Hi,
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**Context*
I have a problem with HP where Xenial installation failed[1] with Remote I/O error (EREMOTEIO    121) on DL380 Gen8 and Gen9.
We tried with the most recent Xenial daily build, but the problem persist.

As far as HP knows, all other OS types follow the standard and respect their maximum transfer setting.
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**Goal*
In order to troubleshoot, I would like to be able to install Xenial using another kernel that the default one for instance a mainline kernel: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.4.14-xenial/

Does "d-i base-installer/kernel/override-image", can do the job ? If yes, where the mainline kernel packages need to be store for "d-i" to grab and installed it ?
Meanwhile, I'm still looking at it, but any piece of advise from you will be appreciated.

Regards,
Eric

[1]
Jun 21 19:42:02 kernel: [ 269.975300] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] tag#1 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
Jun 21 19:42:02 kernel: [ 269.975311] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] tag#1 Sense Key : Illegal Request [current]
Jun 21 19:42:02 kernel: [ 269.975315] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] tag#1 Add. Sense: Invalid field in cdb
Jun 21 19:42:02 kernel: [ 269.975319] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] tag#1 CDB: Write(10) 2a 00 01 94 86 b8 00 a7 c0 00
Jun 21 19:42:02 kernel: [ 269.975321] blk_update_request: critical target error, dev sda, sector 26511032
Jun 21 19:42:02 kernel: [ 269.975325] EXT4-fs warning (device dm-0): ext4_end_bio:329: I/O error -121 writing to inode 782140 (offset 0 size 61440 starting block 3178711)
Jun 21 19:42:02 kernel: [ 269.975328] Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 3178711
Jun 21 19:42:02 kernel: [ 269.975330] Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 3178712

Using the CDB translation you provided:
CDB DECODING
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CDB: Write(10) 2a 00 01 94 86 b8 00 a7 c0 00

0 | 2a | 0010 1010 OPERATION CODE
1 | 00 | 000(WRPROTECT) 0(DPO) 0(FUA) 0 (RESERVER) 0(OBSOLETE) 0(OBSOLETE)
2 | 01 | 0000 0001 LOGICAL BLOCK ADDRESS
3 | 94 | 1001 0100 LOGICAL BLOCK ADDRESS
4 | 86 | 1000 0110 LOGICAL BLOCK ADDRESS
5 | b8 | 1011 1000 LOGICAL BLOCK ADDRESS
6 | 00 | 00(RESERVED) 00 0000(GROUP NUMBER)
7 | a7 | 1010 0111 TRANSFERT LENGTH
8 | c0 | 1100 0000 TRANSFERT LENGTH
9 | 00 | 0000 0000 | CONTROL

The transfer size (0xA7C0) of the IO attempted is larger than the reported Maximum Transfer Length reported by the array in the Inquiry Block Limits VPD page B0h (0x8000). 


-- 
Eric Desrochers
Software Engineer | Sustaining Engineering Team
Canonical Canada, Ltd
www.canonical.com | www.ubuntu.com

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