s390-dasd module does not perform with preseed file

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/ReleaseNotes#IBM_z_Systems_and_LinuxONE_specific_known_issues

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Fully preseeded installation verified, releasing s390-dasd update in yakkety.

This bug was fixed in the package s390-dasd - 0.0.36ubuntu2

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s390-dasd (0.0.36ubuntu2) yakkety; urgency=medium

  * Inproduce preseed step in the state machine, based on s390-zfcp
    implementation. LP: #1572941
  * Add s390-dasd/dasd key to preseed dasd drives to be activated, using
    this key also enables auto_format if it wasn't explicitely specified.
  * Add s390-dasd/auto_format and s390-dasd/force_format preseed only keys
    to dasdfmt devices when needed and always.
  * Use chzdev to activate devices and block until they are ready to be
    used, otherwise dasdfmt fails.
  * Add more error messages when opening and reading geometry of the
    device, prior to dasdfmt.
  * Fix di_snprintfcat compiler warning.

 -- Dimitri John Ledkov <email address hidden> Wed, 18 May 2016 12:46:15 +0100

Hello bugproxy, or anyone else affected,

Accepted s390-dasd into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/s390-dasd/0.0.36ubuntu1.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2016-05-23 05:49 EDT-------
Will be fixed within Xenial.

Verification performed with fully unattended preseed, appended to the initramfs, using proposed udebs to pull in the new s390-dasd, and it successfully completes.

Please release this update to xenial-updates.

This bug was fixed in the package s390-dasd - 0.0.36ubuntu1.1

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s390-dasd (0.0.36ubuntu1.1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * Inproduce preseed step in the state machine, based on s390-zfcp
    implementation. LP: #1572941
  * Add s390-dasd/dasd key to preseed dasd drives to be activated, using
    this key also enables auto_format if it wasn't explicitely specified.
  * Add s390-dasd/auto_format and s390-dasd/force_format preseed only keys
    to dasdfmt devices when needed and always.
  * Use chzdev to activate devices and block until they are ready to be
    used, otherwise dasdfmt fails.
  * Add more error messages when opening and reading geometry of the
    device, prior to dasdfmt.
  * Fix di_snprintfcat compiler warning.

 -- Dimitri John Ledkov <email address hidden> Wed, 18 May 2016 12:46:15 +0100

The verification of the Stable Release Update for s390-dasd has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

Documentation added in the temporary location:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/S390X

From there -> there is link to automating installations with preseeds -> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/S390X/InstallationGuide/AutomatedInstallsWithPreseed which lists s390-dasd/dasd keys and auto_format/force_format.

Subsequently this will be moved to the Installer guide. This task should be considered as fixed.

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2016-06-20 13:29 EDT-------
I successfully verified the fix in s390-dasd, which means, I could perform various fully automated installations via preseed.
Since the fix is now in /pool/main, I highly recommend to remove the "apt-setup/proposed=true" statement in the example parmfile in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/S390X/InstallationGuide/AutomatedInstallsWithPreseed.
Thanks for the implementation! Closing this bug now.

It got removed from the example, but is still mentioned in in a side note and for reference, just in case of any new upcoming new preseed feature that will require proposed ...
Thx for testing, verification and feedback !

This became recently addressed in the latest update of the Ubuntu Installation Guide, chapter B.4.14. Further S/390-specific Preseed Details
https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/installation-guide/s390x/apbs04.html#preseed-other
Hence changing installation-guide from Confirmed to Fix Released.