U 12.10 LiveCD installer crashing during boot loader configuration on NVMe storage( QEMU + NVMe +OVMF )

[Baban Devkate]

Setup-
QEMU, NVMe, EDk2 OVMF with Ubuntu 12.4(x86_64 ) host.

Series of events in brief-
1.Started installation
2. Live CD Installer listed all available (including NVMe Namespace) devices for installation.
3.Selected NVMe Device for installation
4. NVMe NameSpace was accessible during partition creation/formatting, then copying filesystem stuff to ext4(the active Linux partition).
5. installer crashing during boot loader configuration.

OS installer created three partitions /dev/nvmen01p1, /dev/nvmen01p2 and /dev/nvmen01p3 on “nvmen01” 16Gb device.
Where nvmen01p1 is ESP partition( confirmed using 'gdisk') and grub-installer should write the boot loader to ESP partition, but when the grub-installer starts writing grub the installer crashed.

FYI- When I gone through syslog, i haven't seen any trace nvmen01p1(ESP). I can see only nvmen01p2(ext4) and nvmen01p3(swap)

No such installer crashing issue with IDE emulation ATA disk with the same setup i.e. with QEMU + OVMF.

I have successfully booted Ubuntu 12.10 using my nvme.efi driver. Installation was done on ATA disk and then it was booted as NVMe NameSpace.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Baban

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

I'd be interested to see how you configure/boot qemu (the arguments passed) to produce an NVMe device.

I've just uploaded patches which should enable correct installation onto NVMe devices, but I haven't been able to verify that fully yet.

Can you try images from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ ?
And/or also say how to configure NVMe device launched with qemu/ovmf?

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

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