groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxes
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ubuntu CD Images |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
casper (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Groovy |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
** Synopsis
I haven't been able to get ISOs to boot on [some] older BIOS based boxes since late Sunday (7-June). Examples are Ubuntu, Ubuntu-Studio, Kubuntu, Xubuntu and since then Lubuntu too.
NOTE: This `ubuntu-bug` report was filed on the only box (I'd noted at the time) that booted, and didn't have an issue, so details of box are NOT the problem.
On boxes that have the issue boot stops at
"unable to find medium container a live file system
Attempt interactive netboot from a URL?"
(no squashfs check on plymouth type display is seen)
** Addendum - It's not impacting all BIOS boxes either
FAILED to boot are
- hp dc7700 (c2d-e6320, 5gb, nvidia quadro nvs 290)
- dell [optiplex] 755 (c2d-e6850, 5gb, amd/ati radeon rv516/x1300/x1550)
But boxes that boot are
+ dell [optiplex] 745 (c2d-6600, 6gb, amd/ati radeon rv516/x1300/x1550)
+ dell [optiplex] 755 (c2d-e8300, 8gb, amd/ati radeon rv610/radeon hd2400 pro/xt)
+ dell [optiplex] 780 (c2q-q9400, 4gb, amd/ati cedar radeon hd 5000/6000/
+ hp dc7900 (c2d-e8400, 4gb, intel 4 series integrated i915)
+ hp 8200 elite sff (i5-2400, 8gb, nvidia quadro 600)
+ lenovo thinkpad sl510 (c2d-t6570, 2gb ram, i915)
+ motion computing j3400 (c2d-u9400, 4gb, intel mobile 4 series)
It APPEARS the boxes that boot are newer; OR issue only impacts a small subset of BIOS boxes. I had a fail & pass with two d755s (identical boxes but different motherboards; worked on one without PS2 mouse/keyboard ports)
** Background (timing)
On Sunday Morning 7-June I zsync'd the lubuntu daily & wrote to media to continue testing of our updated LXQt (0.15.0) without issue (AEST or my local Melbourne time)
That night I grabbed ubuntu-studio, ubuntu, xubuntu, kubuntu (& tried to grab ubuntu-mate but it's not available yet) and was unable to get these to boot I may not have tried all or in many combinations - just gave them all up as problematic. I also deleted all entries I'd started on iso.qa.ubuntu.com (assuming bad media). Note I would have used the failed boxes as they're on the same desk as my primary box.
Last night (Wednesday 10 June) I grabbed all again, wrote to media again, and tried booting & failed. ISO was tried on four different thumb-drives, using two boxes to write the media. It failed to boot on multiple tried boxes (HP, DELL.. all BIOS). Also the Lubuntu was updated (zsync) & written and it won't boot either anymore.
Most hardware I test on is old/BIOS boxes. Just now I re-tried a thumb-drive on this newer UEFI and it boots here - ie. issue appears to impact only BIOS boxes (c2d, c2q etc)
Note: I also have loads of issues with thumb-drive (worn out maybe?) which is why I deleted my iso.qa.ubu entries, and didn't raise this till today. 3 thumb-drives were purchased this year, 2 have never given me issues.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.10
Package: syslinux 3:6.04~
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-26-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu38
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckR
CasperVersion: 1.449
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Thu Jun 11 03:31:57 2020
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 20.10 "Groovy Gorilla" - Alpha amd64 (20200609)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: syslinux
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Related branches
- Michael Hudson-Doyle: Approve
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Diff: 19 lines (+5/-3)1 file modifiedscripts/casper (+5/-3)
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
summary: |
- groovy daily won't boot anymore on BIOS boxes + groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS boxes |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
tags: | added: rls-gg-incoming |
Changed in syslinux (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in syslinux (Ubuntu Groovy): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
tags: | removed: rls-gg-incoming |
tags: | added: id-5ee24bb4edd42c7b21dc5a88 |
Changed in ubuntu-cdimage: | |
status: | New → Invalid |
This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.
A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here: iso.qa. ubuntu. com/qatracker/ reports/ bugs/1883040
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