Bug#733686: debian-installer-7.0-netboot-mips: Partitioning step fails during netboot install on SGI O�
Package: debian-installer-7.0-netboot-mips
Severity: important
Tags: d-i patch
Dear Maintainer,
During an new installation of wheezy on an SGI O2 the partitioning
step failed.
I was using the netboot image from /debian/dists/wheezy/main/installer-mips/
current/images/r5k-ip32, dating from 14th of December 2013.
Over the UI, the only info was that the partioning step failed. After
looking at the installer logs with a shell during install, it looked
like the postinstall script of the partitioner was bogus. In the log,
the error message was a parsing error from a misplaced brace.
The contents of the file (the partitoner postinstall script) were
looking like a binary, not like a shell script.
I simply deleted the file and the partitioning went OK, as the rest of
the installtion as well.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.3
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: mips (mips64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-r5k-ip32
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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