Peter Van Loock wrote: > When installing the base system, the installation seemed to stall on > 'Retrieving coreutils'. I waited for more than half an hour, but the > installer did not continue. On /dev/tty2, I could see that a 'cp'-command was > running. > When I tried to manually copy the file (coreutils) the shell also blocked. > The CD checked out OK. After I installed Debian using netboot, I tried to copy > this file from the same CD with the same CD-reader and this worked without a > problem. Many people have reported this kind of problem -- often this exact problem -- on hppa, but so far nobody has found out what causes a hang when reading from CD. I suppose it must be some sort of kernel problem; do you see a similar hang reading files from the CD using the system you installed by netboot? I think nobody else who has reported this problem has had a head on their hppa, so you're in a unique position to be able to debug this some in the other virtual terminal. Do you see anything interesting in dmesg when this happens? Could it be a DMA issue or something like that, or the wrong module loaded for the CD drive? (I'm glad you were able to get an install to work at all; afaik you're the first person to even do a hppa install with these images and the 2.4.27 kernell..) -- see shy jo
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