Samuel Verschelde

Have you tried the `--network-config` parameter of the installer? https://github.com/xcp-ng/host-installer/blob/master/doc/parameters.txt#L160

This can be changed in UEFI firmware of the VM. It would be better if we could do it from the OS, but at least it's not completely impossible to...

Thanks. I think you need to add context and explain why hard would be better than soft and what tests you did to have a chance of getting it merged.

Just a quick word to say that this discussion is very interesting, whatever what the outcome will be. I'm following it closely.

Thanks for your report! So the initial installation worked but not the boot afterwards? The installer is supposed to use the same kernel and xen versions as an installed XCP-ng,...

By the way the failure is in Xen itself, so it's really surprising that changing the kernel solved it. It's not supposed to be related.

Can you give us more information about what was done before the system failed to boot?

Are you booting in UEFI mode or MBR mode? There may be interesting logs in `/var/log/installer/install-log`

According to the logs, grub was correctly installed to `/dev/sda` and `/dev/sdb`. ``` INFO [2019-11-24 18:39:30] ran ['chroot', '/tmp/root', '/usr/sbin/grub-install', '--target=i386-pc', '/dev/sda']; rc 0 STANDARD ERROR: Installing for i386-pc platform....

We'll leave this bug report open to gather more feedback about this. This is the first time that I see it become necessary, while many have used our installer to...