Re: mkfs.ext2 - state D partitioning stops at 33% /boot

[Florent Nicart <florent.nicart@gmail.com>]

Hi Mike,

I ran into exactly the same issue on my Sun Ultra 60 with partman 
getting stuck at 33% when starting (before even accessing the partioning 
menu).

I found that the issue was related to the RAID detection, although I had 
no RAID and the only disk installed has been zeroed with dd.

Here is what I did :
- boot the installer in expert mode, where every step will be accessible 
in the installer menu,
- after the stage "load installation components" and before "disk 
partitionning",
- I opened a shell where I moved into /tmp the kernel module md.so and 
the command mdadm (localized with find),
- check that no process mdadm was running and no module md/mdraid was 
loaded,
- close the shell,
- carry on with the partitionning,
- there partman gets grumpy with a big red screen saying it cannot use 
the raid software, but not angry as it carries on straight to the disk 
partitioning.

Hope it helps.

I tried to find an option to tell the installer not to use RAID with no 
success (mdadm=false nor mdraid=false did not work).
If somebody knows a better/simpler way ...

Best regards,
Florent.