Bug#415461: Debian-Installer RC2 hangs on Intel server
On Monday 19 March 2007 19:49, Lars Josephsen wrote:
> Comments/Problems:
> I had one recoverable error: "Disk devices may change on reboot".
> During the installation the Promise box was seen as the first drive
> (sda) and the internal RAID 1 was seen as the second drive (sdb). But
> after reboot they were swapped, so I used a rescue CD to change sdb to
> sda in menu.lst.
Yes, that is a known issue. Glad you found the correct solution.
> Then I got a tougher error: The system hangs during boot. Not even
> Control-Alt- Delete has any effect: A hard reset is needed.
> These are the last few lines on the console:
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> INIT: version 2.86 booting
> Starting the hotplug events dispatcher: udevd.
> Synthesizing the initial hotplug events...done.
> Waiting for /dev to be fully populated...pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI
> Core version: 0.5 shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver
> version: 0.4
> input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input1
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> I really don't know what is causing this hang.
This looks more like a kernel issue than anything related to the
installation itself.
Can you still boot the installer without problems? If you can it is doubly
weird as the installer uses basically the same kernel as the installed
system for amd64. It may be that additional modules are getting loaded
though.
Another option could be that you also need to update /etc/fstab for the
swapped drive order. Did you check that?
It looks to be hanging early in the running or the /etc/rcS.d scripts. You
could try to see which one is the culprit by using the installer's rescue
mode and adding echo's and pauses to see exactly where things go wrong.
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
FJP
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