Quoting Brian Potkin (claremont102@gmail.com): > ethernet interfaces do not. At the 'Detect network hardware' stage the > process hung and the d-i screen remained blue. > > Another machine behaved in a similar fashion but on a third the expected > message about missing firware was displayed. This was puzzling until I > realised this one had only two primary partitions whereas the other two > had disks with primary and logical partitions. > > Taking a spare disk and creating four primary partitions on it lead to > network hardware being detected. With an extended partition d-i did not > return to the main menu. > > Sorry, I have no explantion for what is happening. It is perplexing > because the alpha images do not exhibit this behaviour and the > mountmedia and check-missing-firmware files do not appear to have > changed in the beta image. Well, it could very well be mountmedia bug #683849, which just got fixed (at least theoretically). It could be interesting to test the daily built *netboot* image from http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/ (but only tomorrow asmountmedia was fixed just today)
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