Issue with UEFI deployment on UBUNTU 22.04 LTS

Products

• Ghost Solution Suite

Issue/Introduction

Using PXE configuration and editing the default file to download the ISO and a configuration the configuration will not install on UEFI based bios

Cause

In this case, the initrd was built not using the Broadcom preboot files. 

Testing a PXE preboot using  Broadcom's PXE boot configuration, the device booted an EFI based model into automation as expected

However, because the customer edited the Default file to use ISO for installation and to use a file to unattend setup the computer this process is not supported

The customer edited the Default file to include:

DEFAULT install
LABEL install
  KERNEL vmlinuz
  INITRD initrd
  APPEND root=/dev/ram0 ramdisk_size=1500000 ip=dhcp url=ftp://<internal IP>/LinuxDeploy/Ubuntu_22_04headless/ubuntu-22.04.1-live-server-amd64.iso autoinstall ds=nocloud-net;s=http://<Internal IP>/LinuxDeploy/Ubuntu_22_04headless/cloud-init-bios/ cloud-config-url=/dev/null

 

 

Resolution

What the customer is attempting to perform is not supported

Development is looking into a procedure to perform a Scripted OS Install of Ubuntu machines as a product enhancement for future releases.