Activity log for bug #1931841

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2021-06-14 08:01:40 Thomas Bechtold bug added bug
2021-06-14 08:01:40 Thomas Bechtold attachment added boot.log https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1931841/+attachment/5504474/+files/boot.log
2021-06-14 08:02:27 Thomas Bechtold description The CPC team wants to build minimal arm64 images. Those images should boot initrdless (similar to the amd64 images where the -kvm kernel is used). But booting an initrdless image (build with livecd-rootfs) does fail with: $ sudo qemu-system-aarch64 -m 2G -M virt -cpu max -bios /usr/share/qemu-efi-aarch64/QEMU_EFI.fd -drive if=none,format=qcow2,file=livecd.ubuntu-cpc.img,id=hd0 -device virtio-blk-device,drive=hd0 -device e1000,netdev=net0 -netdev user,id=net0,hostfwd=tcp:127.0.0.1:5555-:22 -nographic [snipped] [ 0.945928] VFS: Cannot open root device "PARTUUID=15058d73-bec1-4c7d-9cd7-f0f73f3ec694" or unknown-block(0,0): error -6 [ 0.946117] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions: [ 0.947611] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) [ 0.948139] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.4.0-74-generic #83-Ubuntu [ 0.948237] Hardware name: QEMU QEMU Virtual Machine, BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015 [ 0.948453] Call trace: [ 0.948736] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x190 [ 0.948864] show_stack+0x28/0x38 [ 0.948918] dump_stack+0xb4/0x10c [ 0.948974] panic+0x150/0x364 [ 0.949027] mount_block_root+0x248/0x304 [ 0.949090] mount_root+0x48/0x50 [ 0.949145] prepare_namespace+0x13c/0x1bc [ 0.949205] kernel_init_freeable+0x270/0x2c4 [ 0.949274] kernel_init+0x1c/0x114 [ 0.949336] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18 [ 0.949913] Kernel Offset: disabled [ 0.950175] CPU features: 0x0952,20e0a230 [ 0.950251] Memory Limit: none [ 0.950595] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) ]--- The reason is, that the the virtio drivers are modules (CONFIG_VIRTIO_BLK=m) but for initrdless boot, they need to be compiled into the kernel. The CPC team wants to build minimal arm64 images. Those images should boot initrdless (similar to the amd64 images where the -kvm kernel is used). But booting an initrdless image (build with livecd-rootfs) does fail with: $ sudo qemu-system-aarch64 -m 2G -M virt -cpu max -bios /usr/share/qemu-efi-aarch64/QEMU_EFI.fd -drive if=none,format=qcow2,file=livecd.ubuntu-cpc.img,id=hd0 -device virtio-blk-device,drive=hd0 -device e1000,netdev=net0 -netdev user,id=net0,hostfwd=tcp:127.0.0.1:5555-:22 -nographic [snipped] [ 0.945928] VFS: Cannot open root device "PARTUUID=15058d73-bec1-4c7d-9cd7-f0f73f3ec694" or unknown-block(0,0): error -6 [ 0.946117] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions: [ 0.947611] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) [ 0.948139] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.4.0-74-generic #83-Ubuntu [ 0.948237] Hardware name: QEMU QEMU Virtual Machine, BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015 [ 0.948453] Call trace: [ 0.948736] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x190 [ 0.948864] show_stack+0x28/0x38 [ 0.948918] dump_stack+0xb4/0x10c [ 0.948974] panic+0x150/0x364 [ 0.949027] mount_block_root+0x248/0x304 [ 0.949090] mount_root+0x48/0x50 [ 0.949145] prepare_namespace+0x13c/0x1bc [ 0.949205] kernel_init_freeable+0x270/0x2c4 [ 0.949274] kernel_init+0x1c/0x114 [ 0.949336] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18 [ 0.949913] Kernel Offset: disabled [ 0.950175] CPU features: 0x0952,20e0a230 [ 0.950251] Memory Limit: none [ 0.950595] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) ]--- The reason is, that the the virtio drivers are modules (CONFIG_VIRTIO_BLK=m) but for initrdless boot, they need to be compiled into the kernel. Expected behavior: Booting an arm64 image without an initrd does work in a virtualized environment similar to an amd64 image (that uses the -kvm kernel)
2021-06-14 14:36:00 Joshua Powers bug added subscriber Joshua Powers
2021-06-18 11:33:58 Thomas Bechtold summary generic arm64 kernel can not boot initrdless generic arm64 kernel can not boot initrdless and there is no -kvm kernel
2021-06-18 23:05:23 Terry Rudd bug added subscriber Terry Rudd
2021-08-18 07:15:25 Ubuntu Kernel Bot linux (Ubuntu): status New Incomplete
2021-08-18 07:15:26 Ubuntu Kernel Bot tags focal
2021-09-29 09:14:31 Thomas Bechtold linux (Ubuntu): status Incomplete Confirmed