Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

[Olaf van der Spek <OvdSpek@LIACS.NL>]

Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> David Härdeman wrote:
> > Dennis Hoppe said:
> > > 1. debian installer asks at which harddisk he should install debian 
> > > etch.
> > > but i have only one harddisk at my server.
> > > ...
> > > d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/discs/disc0/disc
> >
> > On Wed, November 15, 2006 17:18, Olaf van der Spek said:
> > > I've got the same problem.
> >
> > Dennis, Olaf...could you try changing the "partman-auto/disk" entry to
> > "partman-auto/select_disk" in your preseed files and see if that fixes
> > things, and also make sure that you only have one such line in the 
> > preseed
> > file as there seemed to be two "partman-auto/disk" in the preseed file
> > posted to the bug report.
> >
> > If that fixes things, the template either needs a name change or the
> > manual needs an update.
>
> After adding that line "d-i    partman-auto/select_disk    select    
> SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 8.6 GB VMware, VMware Virtual S" the installer 
> gets stuck at:
> Starting up the partitioner
> 85%
> Please wait...

The same happens with the line "d-i	partman-auto/select_disk	select 
/dev/discs/disc0/disc"

CPU usage appears to be 100%, so I suspect an infinite loop.

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