Bug#562594: More information

[Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>]

On Saturday 26 December 2009, Jurij Smakov wrote:
> It turns out that the installer does offer an option to load firmware
> from external drive, but only *after* I have loaded the firmware by
> hand and re-ran 'Detect disks' option from installer menu.

There are calls to a script 'check missing firmware.sh' during all three 
stages of hardware detection.

Please do an install in expert mode, before any hardware detection is 
performed, add a 'set -x' in:
- /bin/hw-detect
- /bin/disk-detect
- /bin/check-missing-firmware

Then, either check yourself where it's failing and/or send the resulting 
syslog (gzipped!).

Cheers,
FJP