Brad Boyer wrote: > I found the crash. One of the partman scripts does a "modprobe floppy" > without any way around it. Since all the legacy drivers that poke ISA > addresses crash a G5, this module is instant death. I was able to get > past this step by removing floppy.o (or floppy.ko with 2.6) before it > got to this step. > > It seems bad to me for one of these scripts to be so sure that it can > load a particular module, when the rest of the install is pretty > careful to allow a user in expert mode to override module selection. > Of course, loading a module shouldn't really crash the machine, but > that's another story.
That's especially braindead, because probing for hardware is hw-detect's job, not partman's. Fixed. -- see shy jo
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
