[Bug 278236] Re: Installer sits there, does nothing

[Phillip Susi]

8.10 has reached end of life.  Have you had this problem on 12.04 or
later?


** Changed in: debian-installer (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  Installer sits there, does nothing

Status in “debian-installer” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  8.10 beta CD - normal x86_64 install CD

  The CD boots, and the text-mode installer runs. After the detecting
  network cards stage, the next stage (loading modules?) goes through
  its progress bar and seems to complete. The next screen is blank, and
  I have a line at the bottom of the screen that appears to do nothing.
  If I hit enter, it puts a carriage return there. Either I am impatient
  and this is an extremely slow progress bar (unlikely) or it's just
  hanging there.

  If I hit "control-C" at that screen, I see the "Detecting Network
  Cards" (or whatever that exact text say) come up, but it's hung.

  I have 1 hard drive on a sata port right now - a 1.0 TB Seagate
  Barracuda drive.

  Hardware: ASUS P5Q Deluxe motherboard - which has Intel P45
  northbridge, Intel ICH10R southbridge, an additional Marvell 88SE6121
  controller (no drives attached to that on my machine), Marvell 88E8056
  / 88E8001 Gigabit LAN, 1394: LSI L-FW3227

  The output of lspci on 8.04 is as follows: 
  00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Eaglelake DRAM Controller (rev 03)
  00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Eaglelake PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
  00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4
  00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5
  00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6
  00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2
  00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller
  00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 1
  00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 5
  00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 6
  00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1
  00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2
  00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3
  00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1
  00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 90)
  00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JIR (ICH10R) LPC Interface Controller
  00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SATA AHCI Controller
  00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SMBus Controller
  01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0640 (rev a1)
  02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 12)
  03:00.0 IDE interface: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE6121 SATA II Controller (rev b1)
  05:02.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8001 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 14)
  05:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Agere Systems FW323 (rev 70)

  
  I was expecting the installer to bring up some kind of options and allow me to continue the installation. It sat there and did nothing.

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