Issue install 20.04 with autoinstall

[Jerry Geis]

Hi Tom,

So - If I use the "standard"
   storage:
     layout:
       name: direct
And use the live-server 20.04 CD - and hit F6 and enter my "autoinstall
ds=nocloud-net;s=https://XXX/pathToAutoinstall
This works -  You example storage works also...  So that is great.

However - what I was trying to do is "remotely" update  an OLD linux
install and replace with 20.04.
so to do that I was trying  edit the /etc/grub.d/40_custom and the menu item
  autoinstall ds=nocloud-net;s=https://XXX/pathToAutoinstall  ip=dhcp
url=pathToLiveServer
set the /etc/default/grub to the id of my 40_custom and run the grub -
update for the old system.
This boots and starts - but I get that silly grub_device message.

What am I not doing correctly to "remotely" update an old linux box.

Thanks,

Jerry

On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 3:29 PM Jerry Geis <jerry.geis at gmail.com> wrote:

> HI Tom,
>
> I did do that - All it says is the same. Nothing additional there.
> I have looked at /var/log files and also the /var/log/installer files.
> Nothing additional.
>
> I have "not" been able to get a "storage" that works. This was the last
> one I tried :
>   storage:
>     layout:
>       name: direct
>     config:
>       - type: disk
>         id: disk0
>         match:
>           size: largest
>       - type: partition
>         id: boot-partition
>         device: disk0
>         size: 512M
>       - type: partition
>         id: root-partition
>         device: disk0
>         size: -1
>
> This also gives the same error: about the grub_device.
> I tried adding "grub_device: false" after the type: disk, same error.
> I tried adding after device: disk0 same error.
>
> Thanks for any suggestion. I am at a loss.
>
> Jerry
>
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 3:21 PM Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 8:27 PM Jerry Geis <jerry.geis at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > When I do this :
>> > storage:
>> >     layout:
>> >       name: direct
>> >
>> > I get a different error. It says "nontype object has not
>> > attribute grub_device"
>>
>> I have no idea what it might be.
>>
>> Go to a shell (via the "help" menu), and check the logs. Hopefully
>> there'll be something there.
>>
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