Someone know the details of what is causing this and how to get it fixed? I assume it's due to the parted changes. ----- Forwarded message from "J.F.Gratton" <grajea01@videotron.ca> ----- From: "J.F.Gratton" <grajea01@videotron.ca> Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 20:57:23 -0500 To: Debian-User mailing list <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Debian netinst ISO (2005-01-31 snapshot) failing ? Reply-To: grajea01@videotron.ca X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 (2.0.2-3) Good evening all, I have many performance issues that made me thing about a fresh install using the new Debian-Installer. I figured that I was "dragging" old options/features/configs since Debian 2 that might somehow require a fresh install. So I've decided to reinstall my debian/unstable system using the current snapshot of the debian-installer, as found at http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ports-status . If I understand correctly, these snapshots are tested daily, so I felt quite reassured that it'd install as a breeze ... At the boot prompt, I chose "expert26" as I want a 2.6 kernel and as much control as possible. So far so good, it starts ok. I get some warnings that the installer is unable to load some modules (3c905, ide-disk, some other ide-stuff) but later on during the installation they might load properly. It keeps going.. the 3Com NIC module did actually load properly. I chose my http mirror, etc. When I select the next step (partition the hard drive), it fails completely, the screen goes red and tells me that no hard drive is attached to the computer (huh ?). Most likely there is a reason why ide- disk won't load and of course it is related to that red screen -- actually the other way around: the red screen is related to the ide-disk failure to load. To make sure my IDE chipset was properly loaded I chose to load all the modules when offered to do so. The same problem appears when I chose expert-mode install with a 2.4 kernel. When I chose default 2.4 or default 2.6 the installer simplay froze when trying to load the ide-disk module. Still I fail to see why it won't load. I chose net install as I wanted to download a minimal set as up to date as possible and get all the rest from the net. I guess I'll download the first Sarge CD then and go from there... I can't figure what makes it freeze like that. I ran Debian unstable (which I apt-get dist-upgrade almost every day) on a 2.6.10 kernel without experiencing such problems. As I can't provide any information (no way to get debug information AFAICS), I was wondering if anyone had a similar problem or if there's any workaround ? Regards, Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org ----- End forwarded message ----- -- see shy jo
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