Comment 14 for bug 1533587

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2016-02-05 04:03 EDT-------
(In reply to comment #17)
> So we're dealing with some system which appears to be detected as something
> different than we're used to then. From what I can tell the partman-prep
> package would get installed if the subarchitecture is correctly detected as
> chrp_ibm or prep, etc.
>
> AIUI this would come from archdetect.
>
> Could you please run the archdetect command in a terminal on the system, and
> tell us here what it reports? The result should be in the form
> 'ppc64el/subarchitecture', I somewhat expect that the subarchitecture on
> this system is reported as 'unknown'.

Hi Mathieu,

The output of the archdetect command:
ubuntu@FR21p01:~$ archdetect
ppc64el/unkown

When i installed Ubuntu16.04 on the same machine and checked .
ubuntu@FR21p01:~$ archdetect
ppc64el/chrp_ibm

Thanks,
Pooja