ppc64el xenial cloud images do not boot in kvm

[Scott Moser]

current cloud images for ppc64el leave you at a grub prompt. I've found this for xenial/20160126.1.

Booting image just produces grub menu like this:

                        GNU GRUB version 2.02~beta2-35

   Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB
   lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists possible
   device or file completions.

grub>

[Scott Moser (smoser)]

The attached script downloads a cloud image, creates a seed , boots in kvm.
it works with:
  ./go-test-ppc64el.sh wily
it fails with
  ./go-test-ppc64el.sh xenial

[Scott Moser (smoser)]

well, one thing that might be wrong is there appears to be no /boot/grub/grub.cfg in the image.

[Dan Watkins (oddbloke)]

I believe the problem is that we don't do update-grub on the image; I'm building a test image with the attached branch now.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package livecd-rootfs - 2.372

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livecd-rootfs (2.372) xenial; urgency=medium

  * Install grub in ppc64el cloud images so they are bootable (LP: #1538610)

 -- Daniel Watkins <email address hidden> Wed, 27 Jan 2016 16:32:58 +0000

[Dan Watkins (oddbloke)]

The fix for this has been merged, and will be included in the 20160127.1 build of xenial cloud images.

smoser pointed out that there shouldn't be any timeout configured, which I am now looking at fixing; that's unlikely to happen before I EOD so will be tomorrow. :)

[Dan Watkins (oddbloke)]

The timeout fix is in https://code.launchpad.net/~daniel-thewatkins/livecd-rootfs/ppc64el/+merge/284229