Hello, Alex Sassmannshausen, le Wed 30 Jan 2013 17:45:10 +0000, a écrit : > Further to the information below, I have now also noticed, during the > initial start of the debian installer that there is an error message: > /dev/console: permission denied
That should be harmless, and not related with the error you mention below. > I can also now say that the failure in the installation process likely > correlates to the following error message in /var/log/syslog: > Jan 30 17:27:09 main-menu[1276]: INFO Menu item 'console-setup-udeb' > selected > Jan 30 17:27:10 main-menu[1276]: (process:1742): cat: can't open > '/var/run/hurd-console.pid': No such file or directory This is a known issue with the pure-text installer, and I'm building an image which should fix it. You can use the pseudo-graphical installer to avoid the issue. > PS: I've completed Gnome Disk-Utility most exhaustive disk check on the > hard drive and no serious issues were found (just the few bad sectors > mentioned below). Ok. > > - Text Install proceeds until Keyboard setup. This step, upon selecting > > the layout, consistently fails. That is indeed related with the console-setup issue you mention above. > > end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00, sector 2 Sector 2? Ouch! If that's one of the bad sectors, you might have troubles installing grub. > > - Alternatively, when I execute a shell from within the installer the > > shell launches, but no /target directory exists (not at root, nor at > > /media/target or at /mnt/target) /target is only made once the partitioning step is finished. > > When I do > > $ ls /dev/ > > I get the same error as above. Ok. I'm afraid the faulty disk will be a definite issue. Samuel
