sounder current daily d-i notes

[Thom May]

Booting with APIC enabled (the default on both our installer and base
kernels) causes my machine to do extremely screwy things - randomly not
detect usb devices, hang on doing anything network related, hang on disk
activity, and some other fun stuff.

Parted tells me:
[!!] Partition disks
Not yet implemented!
This ext2 filesystem has a rather strange layout! Parted can't resize this
(yet).

... on a partition I've told it to use the data and mount, or whatever the
option is. This is more than mildly concerning, and if anyone can offer
hints as to how to debug, i'd be more than grateful.

the installer is *so* much nicer now the progress bar keeps moving for all
the packages, rather than the old behaviour.

Grub install halts at 50%:
grub-install support --no-floppy
Running chroot /target /sbin/grub-install --no-floppy "(hd0)"

and then nothing. Killing the grub process appears to restart it and i then
get a working grub config.
Grub should probably inherit the fact that I booted with noapic.
(or we should turn off apic on uniproc machines altogether - Red Hat
certainly do this).

-Thom