[Bug 1819443] Re: Cannot boot installer on platforms requiring Device Tree

2019-03-26 Thread Lee Jones
Has there been any movement on this yet? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1819443 Title: Cannot boot installer on platforms requiring Device Tree To manage notifications about this bug

[Bug 1819443] Re: Cannot boot installer on platforms requiring Device Tree

2019-03-13 Thread Lee Jones
1. Sounds good. Please let me know your findings. 2. The 142 currently supported DTBs are 4.2M total - the largest single one is 68K. 3. Sub-trees would be fine. They are already formatted that way in the kernel and the *.deb. I don't think Grub knows anything about the system without the D

[Bug 1819443] Re: Cannot boot installer on platforms requiring Device Tree

2019-03-11 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
1. The precompiled dtb's -> i can check if we can ship them in the d-i initrd preinstalled, or at least add them for the mini.iso and/or server.iso 2. So for amd64 mini.iso there is a 6M partition free to use for whatever: $ wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/bionic/main/installer-amd64

[Bug 1819443] Re: Cannot boot installer on platforms requiring Device Tree

2019-03-11 Thread Lee Jones
Thanks for your rapid response. 1. They are pre-compiled DTB files contained in the linux-modules-* packages where 'do_dtbs' is set (currently ARMHF and ARM64). $ dpkg -l | grep linux-modules ii linux-modules-4.15.0-29-generic4.15.0-29.31 arm64Lin

[Bug 1819443] Re: Cannot boot installer on platforms requiring Device Tree

2019-03-11 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
1. Which files are these? can you please give names of .deb and file paths that are in the archive; but missing from the installer environments? 2. We actually do create small writable partitions by default do you not see one? and/or is it too small? 3. Sure, or I'd also be ok with a loop of