Bug#637284: Can't install wheezy on a 2011 iMac

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Mike Hore wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
>> Mike Hore wrote:

>>> I would expect that the latest fixes would only be in Testing.  Is
>>> this right?
>>
>> Nah, the network driver was updated in Stable[2].
[...]
> Well, I found I'd accidentally left myself an unused partition :-)
> So I went ahead and did a regular install using the current weekly build
> netinst iso.
>
> Unfortunately, the problem(s) is/are still there.

Sure, I had no reason to believe the hang was fixed in wheezy.  What
changed is that stable gained an updated network driver; I had been
hoping to see whether _that_ worked.

If it did, it would be possible to confirm, by upgrading only the kernel,
linux-base, and initramfs-tools[1]:

 1. That it's the kernel that broke on this hardware in sid, not some
    userland component

 2. Whether installing the firmware-linux-nonfree package helps

 3. As a bonus, which version of the kernel introduced the trouble (by
    bisecting through the available kernels in snapshot.debian.org)

[1] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianExperimental