Re: Bug#785241: Jessie installer fails on Acer C720
On Wednesday, May 13 2015, Juha Heinanen wrote:
> Jessie installer (in debian-8.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso) fails on Acer C720.
> After selecting Install, screen goes blank and Jessie installer gets
> restarted by Seabios. This has been reported by another user on this
> thread:
I can confirm this problem on an Acer C720P as well.
FWIW, there is also a bug opened against Fedora for this:
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1135793>
I still have to investigate the culprit here.
> As workaround, I have had to use Wheezy installer and then upgrade to
> Jessie. I have also tried some recent Ubuntu installers and they work
> fine on Acer C720.
Booting the testing snapshot also works, which suggests that the bug has
already been fixed.
<http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/>
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