This is some of the info I get in the console (hope it's enough): main-menu: INFO: Menu item 'iso-scan' selected main-menu: INFO: Falling back to the package description for loop-modules-2.6.32-3-486-di main-menu: INFO: Falling back to the package description for loop-modules-2.6.32-3-486-di hw-detect: ISA bus detected; loading module 'idle-generic' hw-detect: insmod /lib/modules/2.6.32-3-486/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-core.ko kernel: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver
(then this message repeated a few times) kernel: usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2 (then the error) kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_ABORT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0 kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0 I downloaded the ISO image from here [1] and the boot.img.gz from here [2]. [1] http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/ [2] http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/hd-media/