Bug#712675: debian-installer: fails to install in-place using network installer hybrid iso booted from local harddisk

[Michal Suchanek <michal.suchanek@ruk.cuni.cz>]

Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal

Hello,

I tried installing on a machine with BIOS problems that only boots from
local disk or network. I did not have network installer ready but had
another live system on the local harddisk so I wrote the netinst iso
hybrid image over it.

I noticed a few issues installing from the harddisk:

 - the installer fails to locate the iso on the disk. The disk has to be
   manually selected to load installer modules
 - the iso is not unmounted prior to partitioning so partitioning step
   fails
 - the partitioning step does not wipe the disk enough so when grub
   instalation is attempted on the disk it refuses to install because it
   thinks the disk has an ISO filesystem and is a CD-ROM with readonly
   2k sectors

Thanks

Michal

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (910, 'testing'), (900, 'stable'), (610, 'oldstable'), (410, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental'), (150, 'precise-updates'), (150, 'precise-security'), (150, 'precise')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.9-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash