I am setting up an unattended install for Ubuntu Server 20.04 with packer
. However, despite my specifying autoinstall
in the boot_command
, the installer always asks me for confirmation (I need to manually type "yes" - in the middle of the screenshot):
This obviously defeats the concept of "unattended install", but I am not able to figure out what is the issue. I'm posting below two different boot_command
s I'm using, and my full configuration at the end of the post.
Both boot commands produce a working installation, but both still ask for confirmation.
Boot command 1:
boot_command = ["<enter><wait2><enter><wait><f6><esc><wait>", "autoinstall<wait2> ds=nocloud;", "<wait><enter>"]
Boot command 2:
"boot_command": [
"<enter><wait2><enter><wait><f6><esc><wait>",
"linux /casper/vmlinuz autoinstall ds=nocloud;",
"<wait><enter>",
"initrd /casper/initrd",
"<wait><enter>",
"boot"
],
Full configuration:
./ubuntu2004.pkr.hcl:
source "virtualbox-iso" "autogenerated_1" {
boot_command = ["<enter><wait2><enter><wait><f6><esc><wait>", "autoinstall<wait2> ds=nocloud;", "<wait><enter>"]
boot_wait = "2s"
cd_files = ["./http/user-data", "./http/meta-data"]
cd_label = "cidata"
disk_size = 8192
guest_additions_path = "VBoxGuestAdditions_{{ .Version }}.iso"
guest_os_type = "Ubuntu_64"
headless = false
http_directory = "http"
iso_checksum = "sha256:f8e3086f3cea0fb3fefb29937ab5ed9d19e767079633960ccb50e76153effc98"
iso_urls = ["https://releases.ubuntu.com/focal/ubuntu-20.04.3-live-server-amd64.iso"]
shutdown_command = "echo 'ubuntu'|sudo -S shutdown -P now"
ssh_agent_auth = true
ssh_handshake_attempts = "200"
ssh_private_key_file = "/home/asdf/.ssh/virtual_id_ed25519"
ssh_username = "vagrant"
ssh_wait_timeout = "10000s"
vboxmanage = [["modifyvm", "{{ .Name }}", "--memory", "1024"], ["modifyvm", "{{ .Name }}", "--cpus", "1"]]
virtualbox_version_file = ".vbox_version"
vm_name = "packer-ubuntu-20.04-amd64"
}
build {
sources = ["source.virtualbox-iso.autogenerated_1"]
provisioner "shell" {
scripts = ["scripts/init.sh"]
}
provisioner "shell" {
scripts = ["scripts/cleanup.sh"]
}
post-processor "vagrant" {
compression_level = "8"
output = "ubuntu-20.04-test.box"
}
}
./http/user-data:
#cloud-config
autoinstall:
version: 1
locale: en_US
keyboard:
layout: en
variant: us
network:
network:
version: 2
ethernets:
enp0s3:
dhcp4: true
storage:
layout:
name: lvm
ssh:
install-server: yes
user-data:
users:
- name: vagrant
ssh_authorized_keys:
- ssh-ed25519 REDACTED
sudo: ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL
groups: [adm, sudo]
lock_passwd: true
shell: /bin/bash
packages:
- openssh-server
- build-essential
late-commands:
- echo 'vagrant ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL' > /target/etc/sudoers.d/vagrant