Quoting: Christian Perrier <bubu...@debian.org> >>>So, in short, in regular mode, it crashes (always at the same place) >>>but in vga=771 mode, it doesn't, right?
>>Correct. >And I assume that you get no crash as well if you're using the >graphical installer. I had not tried the graphical installer, figuring that the more basic the better, but I just did. It appears that just before going to graphical, the installer puts the screen in mode 771. I get the smaller, sharper fonts. So, no. It doesn't crash in the graphical installer. BTW, the graphical installer looks good! >I'm puzzled to reassign this bug report. This is obviously a race >condition somewhere. Probably a weird kernel issue but investigating >further is....tricky and I fear that this bug report might remain >uninvestigated further for quite a while until it "magically" solves >in the future with a new kernel (though probably not for Lenny). That's probably the reasonable thing to do. >I propose documenting this in the errata file, at the minimum. Yes. A prominent (easy to find) note that would say something like "If your laptop crashes completely during installation, try replacing the boot option vga=normal with vga=771 or use the graphical installer" would have saved some time, but then the problem would not have become known. Thank you very much for your help! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
