On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 11:25:31PM +0100, Andreas W?st wrote: > Hi > > I've encountered some interesting behaviour of the debian installation system > during a woody installation on an Amiga4000 APUS box (architecture: powerpc, > flavor: apus), using kernel 2.4.17 and boot-floppies 3.0.19. > > The case why I've encountered this at all, was, that selecting "Initialize a Linux > Partition" caused the installation system to restart, but I was told that this is an > APUS kernel specific thing. But the following shouldn't be kernel specific, and it > was also not known if this behaviour is erratic or if it is the expected > behaviour of the system, so I was told to post this to this list. > > So here we go. When the installer restarts, it always starts in the current console > the user is in. For example, when I change to console 3 shortly after selecting the > ominous "Initialize a Linux Partition" menu point, it will start in console 3 (quite > practical to see the kernel output on console, I am using -v ;) ). > Otherwise, if I change to console 2 and the installer systems starts there, > this is quite a bad idea, because on console 2 no keyboard entry can be done > anymore (console 2 is the one in which a shell could be started by pressing enter > during the installation). > > So, what do you think? Is this unexpected, or is it just the way it should be? > With other words, should I file a bug against the boot-floppies, or is it just > the way it should work and used for debugging? > > Kind regards, > Andi
The restart bug on Initialize has been fixed. (A release is due shortly.) As far as what happens when it restarts, I guess that's just weird behavior and outside the realm of planned events ... unless someone knows what's going on and can fix it without too much trouble. -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> | | debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | May the Source be with you | *----------------------------------------------------------------* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]