Bug#794468: general: no watchdog support in installer kernel
Package: general
Severity: normal
The Debian installer images for jessie apparently do not have watchdog
support enabled in the kernel, so they do not send heartbeats to the
BIOS.
This results in the installer system aborting and the machine resetting
after five minutes, or whatever the BIOS sees as watchdog timeout.
Disabling watchdog support during installation is obviously a simple
workaround, but it could still be enabled as to my knowledge, it does
not make the kernel significantly better.
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