Alright so the problem at present appears to be that the machine is pxe booting off of a nic with a mac address that is not showing up after the kernel boots.
The way the boot works is the bios/efi launches a pxe network stack. This typically makes a dhcp request. The DHCP server responds with an IP address, and the address of the PXE/TFTP server *(in this case the maas server). The network stack firmware on the client then requests the kernel, initramfs and kernel arguments from the PXE server. The bios/efi pxe network stack then downloads this, and executes the kernel. One of the arguments maas is responding with BOOTIF=01-9c- eb-e8-3c-52-cc. This means the original pxe request originates from this mac address. When the initramfs starts it runs a script function called configure_networking that attempts to set up the BOOTIF=01-9c- eb-e8-3c-52-cc NIC, but it doesn't appear to exist to the OS. This could mean a few things. - The NIC doing the initial pxe request is different than the usb-c one. Is there a chance that there's a wireless nic that has a pxe stack that you've configured? I know some newer machines are able to pxe boot off of their network cards so this would be useful to check. - The mac address is changing between the pxe request and the OS boot. - IPv6 is in the mix. Are you attempting to boot via ipv6? - The PXE server is responding with the incorrect mac address in BOOTIF. The last two can be checked by looking at /var/log/rackd.log on your maas server. You should be able to grep for 01-9c-eb-e8-3c-52-cc or 01-84-7b-eb-55-c1-95 in the rackd.log to see which nic is making the pxe request. If 01-9c-eb-e8-3c-52-cc shows up in the rackd.log then it's pretty definitive that the issue is booting using a nic with that mac somehow. Please check the above and let me know what you discover. Thanks, Dave. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1639202 Title: Cannot enlist/commission machines in MAAS 2.1 with usb network adapter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/maas/+bug/1639202/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
