Re: Bug#691922: installation failure with 2TB disk
On Thu 01 Nov 2012 at 20:02:38 +0200, Jukka Neppius wrote:
> I figured why it hangs:
>
> Last messages for normal users are:
> "Searching drives for an installer ISO Image"
> "Mounting /dev/sda4..."
>
> /dev/sda4 is an extended partition
>
> I installed Debian in expert mode to avoid that. In installed system
> (3.2.0-3-686-pae) "mount -t auto -o ro /dev/sda4 /mnt" also hangs.
>
> Control-C, Control-Z, kill, kill -9 and 'shutdown -h now' have no effect.
> Hardware reset is needed.
>
> Same happens with smaller (160 GB) disk. So this is a kernel bug.
The bug is known about. kernel-image-3.2.0-4 fixes it. You could look
in
http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/i386/
for a suitable a boot.img.gz.
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