Public bug reported:
Using the Ubuntu flash installer from
http://people.canonical.com/~dannf/ubuntu-s390x-flash/
to prepare an Ubuntu system.
I tried to use the flash installer to prepare my Ubuntu system. I did
not get the installer to sucessfully recognize the target disk which is
a DASD. I tried both version 1.0 and 1.1 of the flash installer and
tried to run it on an already installed Ubuntu 16.04 system and on a
SUSE SLES 12 system.
Device EA80 should become the new flashed disk.
Note the two different error messages when providing the disk by bus ID
or by device file.
root@s8315043:/home/test# lsdasd
Bus-ID Status Name Device Type BlkSz Size Blocks
==============================================================================
0.0.ea7e active dasda 94:0 ECKD 4096 21129MB 5409180
0.0.ea80 active dasdb 94:4 ECKD 4096 21129MB 5409180
root@s8315043:/home/test# ./ubuntu-s390x-flash_1.1 0.0.ea80
=== Ubuntu 16.04 ('xenial') for IBM z Series Beta [1.1] ===
This utility will flash an Ubuntu image onto a spare drive (that you specify)
so that you can quickly reIPL and login to a fully functional Ubuntu 16.04
system.
Press <ENTER> to continue or ^c to exit
ERROR: 0.0.ea80 does not exist.
Configuration Failed, exiting.
root@s8315043:/home/test# ./ubuntu-s390x-flash_1.1
/dev/disk/by-path/ccw-0.0.ea80
=== Ubuntu 16.04 ('xenial') for IBM z Series Beta [1.1] ===
This utility will flash an Ubuntu image onto a spare drive (that you specify)
so that you can quickly reIPL and login to a fully functional Ubuntu 16.04
system.
Press <ENTER> to continue or ^c to exit
ERROR: /dev/disk/by-path/ccw-0.0.ea80 does not appear to be a channel
device.
Configuration Failed, exiting.
root@s8315043:/home/test#
Attaching dbginfo and sosreport.
Please let me know which additional debugging information you need.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Assignee: Skipper Bug Screeners (skipper-screen-team)
Status: New
** Tags: architecture-s39064 bot-comment bugnameltc-140206 severity-high
targetmilestone-inin1604
** Tags added: architecture-s39064 bugnameltc-140206 severity-high
targetmilestone-inin1604
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Ubuntu flash installer not recognizing the target disk
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