[Aron Xu] > I haven't managed to get it yet, because it looks like that d-i goes > into an infinite loop and I cannot log in to a console because they > are continuously being refreshed. :( I wonder whether there is any > keyboard shortcut to break d-i from that status?
Are you using the graphical installer? If not, I suspect Ctrl-S and Ctrl-Q will help a bit. I've had similar problems after feeding cdebconf with some bogus values, causing cdebconf to crash and d-i restarts the menu when it dies. I believe you can stop the loop with ctrl-S, visit tty2 (Alt-F2), press enter, press ctrl-q to "release d-i" to get the shell on tty2, press ctrl-s to stop the looping again, and then use the shell in tty2 to investigate. Been a while since I had to investigate such problems. Running the installer with debconf debugging enabled (boot with DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer) might pinpoint exactly when cdebconf get confused. Ping me on #debian-boot if you need help with this. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen _______________________________________________ Soc-coordination mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/soc-coordination
