Bug#356089: installation-report: tuesday 7 march 2006
On Friday 10 March 2006 02:16, Peter De Wachter wrote:
> Comments/Problems:
> * I first had an USB keyboard connected. This worked with the BIOS
> setup and the boot loader, but not in the debian installer. So I had to
> change to a PS/2 keyboard. (USB works in the installed system.)
We see this more often. It is something to look into.
> * The installer hanged during partitioning, with the following error
> message in the kernel log:
> ata1: command 0x55 timeout, stat 0x50 host_stat 0x4
> This no longer happened after I booted with the noapic nolapic
> options.
Sounds like a kernel issue. You may want to google to check if this is a
known issue and, if not, report it to with the maintainers of the kernel
driver for your disk controller.
> * base-files and base-passwd failed to install because a missing tar. I
> copied busybox to /target/bin/tar and was able to restart that step
> and continue.
This has been checked and should be fixed with current CD images:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/etch_d-i/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/
Thank you for sending your report.
Cheers,
FJP
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