I have a VPS at OVH.ca and I'm attempting to install my own operating system, other than the ones they install for you. I boot it into rescue mode, which allows me to repartition and mount the disk and install Ubuntu using debootstrap. Then I try to boot it, and this is what I get:
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They obviously won't offer me any support, since I'm trying to install an OS other than the ones they provide. But I'm convinced it's a Xenial thing anyway, since it WORKS if I follow exactly the same steps to install a Debian OS or Ubuntu Trusty. This is the process I follow after booting into rescue mode with a Debian Jessie disc and adding the Stretch repository (for the latest debootstrap):
EDIT: I use the latest version of debootstrap because the one in the Jessie repository doesn't include a script for Xenial.
Then, i chroot into /mnt and install:
EDIT: actually i do the install in two steps. I install nano first, then update /etc/fstab to include the root filesystem. Then in stall the kernel and grub and others. I have also tried installing the virtual version of the kernel. I have also trying including the recommended packages.
Then reboot, and I get that screen above. I can't SSH into it ("no route to host") either. Like I said, if I try this with a different OS, it works just fine. I've also tried building the OS on my machine and uploading it as a tar then extracting. I have tried another option as well (won't get into the details) but everything I try -- with Xenial -- gets me to that screen above. Since I don't have physical access to the machine, I can't actually see what a "real monitor" would look like.
EDIT: Just realized the reason I can't SSH in *may* be because I have yet to configure the network for DHCP in /etc/network/interfaces. I will reboot in rescue mode and configure and see if that changes anything...
EDIT: I am also going to try to install a different (previous) version of the kernel.
EDIT: I configured the network and installed a different (actually newer) kernel. So I've tried with 4.4.0-21 and 4.4.0-66. After configuring the network, I still cannot SSH into the machine.
Any thoughts on what might be happening here?
THANK YOU!
Jared
They obviously won't offer me any support, since I'm trying to install an OS other than the ones they provide. But I'm convinced it's a Xenial thing anyway, since it WORKS if I follow exactly the same steps to install a Debian OS or Ubuntu Trusty. This is the process I follow after booting into rescue mode with a Debian Jessie disc and adding the Stretch repository (for the latest debootstrap):
Code:
umount /mnt/sdb1 # it starts as mounted
rmdir /mnt/sdb1
fdisk /dev/sdb # create a partition
mke2fs -t ext4 /dev/sdb1
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
apt-get -t stretch install debootstrap ubuntu-archive-keyring
debootstrap --variant=minbase xenial /mntThen, i chroot into /mnt and install:
Code:
apt-get -y install nano linux-image-generic-lts-xenial grub-pc net-tools ifupdown iproute2 ufw isc-dhcp-server ssh rsyslog
grub-install /dev/sdb
update-grubThen reboot, and I get that screen above. I can't SSH into it ("no route to host") either. Like I said, if I try this with a different OS, it works just fine. I've also tried building the OS on my machine and uploading it as a tar then extracting. I have tried another option as well (won't get into the details) but everything I try -- with Xenial -- gets me to that screen above. Since I don't have physical access to the machine, I can't actually see what a "real monitor" would look like.
EDIT: Just realized the reason I can't SSH in *may* be because I have yet to configure the network for DHCP in /etc/network/interfaces. I will reboot in rescue mode and configure and see if that changes anything...
EDIT: I am also going to try to install a different (previous) version of the kernel.
EDIT: I configured the network and installed a different (actually newer) kernel. So I've tried with 4.4.0-21 and 4.4.0-66. After configuring the network, I still cannot SSH into the machine.
Any thoughts on what might be happening here?
THANK YOU!
Jared