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Bug#272627: Install report



Miroslav ?ilhavý wrote:
>     On the destination disk, beside the USB boot device, I also had older
> version of install ISO.
>     The installer took the ISO from the disk in precedence before trying to
> load it from my USB flash disk.
>     That resulted in impossibility to load modules and detect hardware
> (including network devices).

That's probably hard to fix well, perhaps iso-scan should show a menu,
but even finding all isos can be very expensive if it does not stop at
the first one.

>     Firstly I was trying to install directly to an /dev/md0, which installer
> set up correctly. Also
>     XFS creation produced no error. ButInstall base system hung up. After
> some tries I finnaly got
>     to a boot loader installation, I chose GRUB, but another unrecoverable
> hung occured.
>     
>     Finnaly I had to install the system to a small (2 GiB) partition, using
> ext2, without trying to setup
>     software RAID, and using LILO as boot loader. Then I set up /dev/md0,
> copied system, installed
>     GRUB and changed the 2 GiB partition type to swap.

You might try software raid with a filesystem other than XFS. Some have
reported problems with XFS on software raid.

-- 
see shy jo

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