Very slow boot via HPE iLO virtual media, "cloud-init failed to complete after 10 minutes of waiting"

[Marian Rainer-Harbach]

I'm trying to boot the 22.04 live server ISO on an HPE server. The ISO file is on a web server at another site, connected to the server to be installed via a 50 MBit/s link with about 20 ms of latency. The ISO file is mounted via HPE iLO's virtual media feature.

Booting the ISO takes a very long time in this setup due to the massive size of the ISO file. It took about 90 minutes until the Ubuntu installer appeared. The installer now shows a message box with "cloud-init failed to complete after 10 minutes of waiting" and prompts me to add a bug report.

[Dipak (dipakparmar65)]

Got a similar issue while installing the ubuntu 22.04 via Dell IDRAC

[Sachin Divekar (ssd532)]

Just to confirm Dipak's report I am facing the same issue on iDRAC. In my case, it is the iso file used as virtual media.

[Andre Courchesne (andre-courchesne)]

I have a similar issue on a Supermicro X11SSH-LN4F using the Virtual Media ISO file but only when the IPMI is on public internet IP (no firewall).

If the IPMI is on the same LAN as my computer accessing it the install works (using the same ISO).

[Andre Courchesne (andre-courchesne)]

Some more feedback. The Supermicro X11SSH-LN4F allows to mount an ISO directly (that's the failing method), but also provides a way to mount the ISO via a samba share.

Just tried that last method and I was able to re-image my server twice...

[Andre Courchesne (andre-courchesne)]

I found this related ticket: https://bugs.launchpad.net/subiquity/+bug/1971181

It suggests adding `fsck.mode=skip` to the grub kernel command line. Well, it worked for me. I was able to install using IPMI IKVM mounted ISO.

I tested with the IPMI on my private LAN (100Mbps) and also on a public internet line limited to 20Mbps, both worked where they failed before.

[Dan Bungert (dbungert)]

Tracking the changes for this on bug 1986781