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debian-installer package

Alternate Installer hangs after looking for CD

Bug #80294 reported by Juho Fröjd
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Bug Description

Booted from the Kubuntu Feisty Herd 2 Alternate Install CD, and chose Install in text mode. After localisation and keymap, the installer looks for the CD. It runs the Detecting Hardware progressbar and the just hangs. It gives no errors, and does nothing after it, just shows the blue background. Same happened with two different systems under VirtualBox and one system when no virtualisation was in use.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

Press Alt-F4 and look at the log; are lots of "not found" messages scrolling by? If so, this is also bug 76341, and adding hw-detect/start_pcmcia=false to the kernel command line will work around it.

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Juho Fröjd (jfrojd) wrote :

Checked, and indeed it was giving a load of
<date> kernel: not found
errors. The workaround solved the issue.

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CH (yogich) wrote :

This is confirmed on Gateway Business System of about three years in age. Both the 'text installation' & 'OEM' are affected.

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CH (yogich) wrote :

Workaround doesn't work around this on my machine. Not even on the latest daily build (25JAN07).

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CH (yogich) wrote :

We're talking INSTALLER, here!! C'mon, folks! ;-) This is SERIOUS.

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Robbie Groenewoudt (dutchmega) wrote :

I can confirm this with Herd2-alternate-CD.

<date> kernel: not found

Adding hw-detect and/or hw-detect/start_pcmcia=false to boot doesn't work

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Nanley Chery (nanoman) wrote :

Does this bug still happen in Feisty Final?

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for debian-installer (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

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