Bug#685414: installation-reports: Hangs while searching drives on a Mac Mini G4 (PowerPC)

[Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@gwolf.org>]

Gaudenz Steinlin dijo [Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 09:31:03PM +0200]:
> > Package: installation-reports
> > Severity: important
> > Tags: d-i
> >
> > In case it matters: The computer's CD drive is broken and it cannot
> > AFAIK boot from USB media, so I downloaded the files and instructed my
> > existing yaboot to launch the installer.
> >
> > Once the installer starts, it asks the questions regarding locale,
> > but as soon as it switches to "Searching for an installer ISO image",
> > gets stuck at "mounting /dev/sda1".
> 
> I guess this is #683849. Can you try a daily image? 

Hi Gaudenz,

I just tried with the daily image for today, and got exactly the same
results :(

The bug you mention happens at a much later stage (at
partman-auto-lvm, my lockup happens just after localechooser),
although it does sound related - Trying to mount /dev/sda1 from the
console still hangs. However, the following messages in
/var/log/syslog grab my attention:

Aug 27 16:05:32 hw-detect: Missing modules 'pata_macio (KeyLargo ATA)

Before getting to hw-detect, a request to mount any of the partitions
results in:

# mount /dev/sda1 /media
mount: mounting /dev/sda1 on /media failed: No such file or directory
# mount /dev/sda2 /media
mount: mounting /dev/sda2 on /media failed: No such file or directory

But once at this stage, "real" partitions mount successfully:

# mount /dev/sda2 /media
#

But attempting to mount /dev/sda1 just hangs, without issuing any
messages either to the console or to the syslog. Even attempting to
kill -9 the 'mount' process fails.

FWIW, the mount command that's also stalled from d-i is:

mount -t auto -o ro /dev/sda1 /hd-media