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Bug#792366: workaround to not being able to install Deb 8.1



Hi Niels,

Niels Verbeek <nverbeek@dds.nl> (2015-07-17):
> Hello Debian,
> 
> 
> What solved the installation crashes for me was:
> 
>   1) Do not install using LVM, just plain old-fashioned partitions.
> 
>   2) Before continuing to 'choose and install software / packages' use
> the command line to manually install the discover package and edit the
> config file so that is does not try to scan the USB and/or SCSI buses.
> Scanning these freezes the acer aspire e11 e12-111m laptop) system
> 
> 
> Cheers, Niels
> 
> 
> p.s. Still not quite sure which package(s) this trouble belongs to.  It
> might be the installer, the mkinitrd package, the discover packages or
> the dependencies between them.

Thanks for your report, I've only now seen it had been reassigned to
debian-boot@.

I've just queried kernel/initramfs-tools maintainer's opinion; it might
be something missing there, or possibly bad support in the installer;
I'm unclear on that topic for now.

Mraw,
KiBi.

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