Ubuntu
ubiquity package

  1. Bug #1654696
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 1654696

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Newton Liu (newtonl) wrote :

Another item:

8) A PXE install where the PXE server and client are on a private network with no external internet access will fail with a "The 'grub-efi-amd64-signed' package failed to install into /target/. Without GRUB boot loader, the installed system will not boot." error.

The PXE server initiates the install with the following grub boot menu entry:

title Software Install
        set gfxpayload=keep
        kernel (nd)/DevBoxSW/vmlinuz.efi nouveau.modeset=0 boot=casper ip=enp2s0f0 netboot=nfs username=root nfsroot=10.20.187.10:/nvidia/content/DevBoxSW file=/cdrom/preseed/nvpxefactory.seed boot=casper debug-ubiquity automatic-ubiquity toram quiet splash --debug debug-oem-config --
        initrd (nd)/DevBoxSW/initrd.lz

Where "(nd)/DevBoxSW/" is where the PXE server's TFTP server keeps a copy of the vmlinuz and initrd of the ISO I'm trying to install, "10.20.187.10" is the PXE server's NFS server, and "nvidia/content/DevBoxSW" is the directory it exports that contains the contents of the ISO file I want to install.

However, using the exact same ISO will work fine if I create a bootable USB stick with it, and directly install on the client system where its network cable is both plugged in and unplugged.