On Thursday 22 June 2006 10:26, Michael Prokop wrote: > IMHO this looks like an userland application is trying to access > /dev/fd0 several times (as the 'end_request: I/O error...' is > present several times). This usually happens when scanning for > disks/partitions/... Might this be the case, Frans Looking at the log again, it seems that the kernel really thinks there's floppy drive, so IMHO you can't really blame the installer for trying to access it...: Jun 14 12:11:12 hw-detect: Detected module 'floppy' for 'Linux Floppy' Jun 14 12:11:12 kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M Jun 14 12:11:12 hw-detect: insmod /lib/modules/2.6.16-2-486/kernel/drivers/block/floppy.ko Jun 14 12:11:12 kernel: FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 The place in the log where the errors first happen is during the last hardware detection phase, just before partitioning. The installer calls the disk-detect script [1], which in turn calls parted_devices. Jun 14 12:12:18 main-menu[2115]: INFO: Menu item 'disk-detect' selected Jun 14 12:12:59 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 Jun 14 12:13:33 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 Marc: Could you restart the installer and when you get to the partitioning screen switch to VT2 and run parted_devices manually? Does it pause then and do you get the same errors in syslog? Shortly after that the errors also happen during initialization of partman, which was apparently canceled the first time and restarted. The partman init scripts also call parted_devices. Jun 14 12:13:35 main-menu[2115]: INFO: Menu item 'partman-base' selected Jun 14 12:14:11 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 Jun 14 12:14:45 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 Jun 14 12:15:14 main-menu[2115]: INFO: Menu item 'partman-base' succeeded but requested to be left unconfigured. [...] Jun 14 12:15:18 main-menu[2115]: INFO: Menu item 'partman-base' selected Jun 14 12:15:54 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 Jun 14 12:16:28 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 Cheers, FJP [1]http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/d-i/trunk/packages/hw-detect/disk-detect.sh?op=file&rev=0&sc=0
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