On Sun, 2010-04-11 at 14:04 +0300, Sakari Aaltonen wrote: > Quoting Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>: > > > Please try to install the 'testing' suite (work in progress for Debian > > 6.0 'squeeze') using the installer from > > <http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/>. This will install a > > newer kernel version (2.6.32) which might include a fix for this bug. > > Even if you are sure you want to use Debian 5.0 'lenny', this will at > > least tell us whether a bug fix exists. > > Here are the results from my attempt to install *netinst testing > squeeze Alpha 1*. > > Without 'noapic', the newer install did not stop at the "MP-BIOS bug" > error message, but did advance to the language selection screen. But > it was impossible to select the language, as the keyboard did not work. This is obviously a kernel bug, but may be fixed now (the installer currently runs on Linux 2.6.30 but installs 2.6.32). > With 'noapic', the install proceeded to completion. However, the > language/locale selection was strange in that if I selected English as > the language, I was only able to select the locale from a list of > English-language countries. This does not make sense. I could very > well be a native speaker of English residing in a non-English-language > locale. You may need to use 'expert' mode to make that choice. However I believe there have been some later changes to locale selection to make it more flexible. > Or, I could simply prefer to use English at the installation > stage - if there is a problem in the screen "Tee > pakettienhallintajärjestelmän asetukset", say, then how do I file a > bug report if I don't know how that phrase was written, originally, in > English? > > The installer finds the Fedora 12 that I installed earlier and > promises that that OS will be bootable in addition to the Debian one. > However, when I next restart the machine, the GRUB menu does *not* > have an entry for Fedora. There are only Debian entries - 4 of them, > in fact. > > OK, I select the top entry. But... I cannot log in, as the Welcome > screen does not accept me either as a normal user or as root. I have > now done the installation - all of it - twice, to make sure I did > input the password(s) correctly. But, well, no luck. I'm wondering whether the keyboard is still broken here. Did you type the username in or did you select it with the mouse? Or were you forced to select the wrong keymap for your keyboard because of the restrictions in the installer? > I will note that I have, successively, installed OpenSUSE 11.2, Ubuntu > 9.10 and Fedora 12 on this machine. They did have problems, yes, but I > could still log in. Also, the Debian install seems to have made the > Fedora 12 installation unbootable. A pity, as it was working pretty > well this morning. Sorry about that; maybe the installer developers (debian-boot list) can help you to debug and fix this. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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