Hey! On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Luca Capello <l...@pca.it> wrote: > >>>> Please report your experience :-) >> >> It works great until the partitions are scanned for a Debian ISO. Then >> the installer hangs on scanning /dev/sda3. It is possible to change vt >> and drop a shell but executing anything just hangs the shell. > > On Tue, 06 Nov 2012 10:01:49 +0100, Per Andersson wrote: >> It still hangs on iso-scan of /dev/sda3 (the extended partition). A >> wild guess is >> that iso-scan can't handle it correctly, last thing in the logs state that >> it is >> waiting for /dev/sda2. (Is this a bug in iso-scan, being confused about how >> to >> handle extended partitions?) > > You have probably hit (which seem to be the same bug): > > <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=627163#60> > <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=683706> > <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=686786> > <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=691922>
This is it. >> Can I prepare /dev/sda3 somehow? > > Well, there is no point in preparing it, because anyway partman will > play with it at the next cycle. I thought the error occurred while scanning /dev/sda3 but it occurs when scanning /dev/sda2 of course. > My suggestion would be to use previous debian-installer hd-media images, > the Debian Events Box was used at FOSDEM 2012, thus images from that > period would work. I tried with d-i dailys from 20120101-00:32 but then there is a kernel mismatch with the one in the archive, and the installer hangs on the question. > I do not have access to that machine right now, but > I do tomorrow, so if you do not find anything useful, I can always > upload them somewhere. As a workaround for this weekends booth, is it possible to preseed the path to the installation media and avoid using iso-scan totally? In fact, any hack to circumvent the iso-scan hang will work. Best, Per -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cabyrxssflglcmcg5mzanwp1yzccvp9+3gna4u9d7ax_6g+w...@mail.gmail.com
