Bug#395523: Debian Etch
On Friday 27 October 2006 16:46, Karl Schmitz II wrote:
> Comments/Problems:
> Most "Detect" screens take 5 minutes or more, with no progress
> indicated on the % complete bar. Partition hard drives froze at 35%
> complete for more then 30 minutes. I had BIOS set to "IDE Mode" for
> SATA hard drives. I will re-try with "Native Mode" setting. hda
> partitioned for Win XP, hdb and hdb are not partitioned / formatted,
> and will be for Debian.
This seems to indicate some fairly fundamental problems with the kernel
support of your system. It is highly unlikely that these issues could be
caused by the installer itself.
The problems may go away after we update the installer to use the 2.6.18
kernel, but I'm not sure they will. Anyway, there is not much we can do
on the installer side to improve things for you.
Trying with a "Native mode" setting sounds like a good idea.
You could also try switching to VT2 and using 'ps alx' to see what
processes are actually running when the hardware detection looks frozen.
Checking the /var/log/syslog for the times when you see the pauses may
give an indication of where the problem is too.
If you can provide some more information, we can try to reassign this
report to the kernel team and see what they think.
Please also provide the output of '(lspci; lspci -n) | sort' so we know
what hardware we're talking about.
Cheers,
FJP
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