Control: severity -1 important Hi,
Olivier F. R. Dierick <o.dier...@piezo-forte.be> (2023-11-16): > Justification: breaks the whole system Not being able to install doesn't “break the whole system”. This is a showstopper in the installation process in your case indeed, but that's not what this severity is for. > Updating from Debian 8 to Debian 12 from an USB stick. Maybe check the image was correctly written on your USB stick? A number of weird issues like that one are linked to hardware faults or similar issues. > * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or > ineffective)? > > Ineffective: Tried disconnecting external disks & USB storage HUB, and > switching SATA setting from AHCI to IDE in BIOS. > Also tried expert mode & text mode. > > * What was the outcome of this action? > > Debian Installer is stuck on Detect Disks. > Switching to a console and running ps shows that a parted_devices > process is in D state. Anything in dmesg or /var/log/syslog? It might be interesting to see what happens with 12.0 images (in case something interesting happened in the kernel, but such a hard failure seems rather strange), and maybe try your luck with some Debian Live image? Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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