Installer fail to load kernel modules when using kickstart

Bug #1667605 reported by Adrien Bresson
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debian-installer (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

## Ubuntu version ##
ubuntu-16.10-server-amd64

## Environment ##
VirtualBox 5.1.6

## Problem description ##
Ubuntu server installer fail to load kernel modules when a kickstart file is used as boot parameter. The installer is then unable to detect network interfaces (because module e1000 is not loaded) and fail
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## How to reproduce ##
The bug happens with VirtualBox but also with all physical machines I tested the kickstart installation on.
To reproduce this bug you just have to start a new VirtualBox Linux VM and start a new ubuntu server installation with boot option "ks=http://foo.bar/ks.cfg"
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Here is the command line used to boot (more information available within the attached syslog file):
Kernel command line: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu-server.seed vga=788 initrd=/install/initrd.gz DEBCONF_DEBUG=5 ks=http://foo.bar/ks.cfg --- keyboard-configuration/layoutcode=fr keyboard-

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Adrien Bresson (adrienbresson) wrote :
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tags: added: bot-comment
affects: ubuntu → debian-installer (Ubuntu)
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in debian-installer (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
tags: added: yakkety
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