Herbert Kaminski wrote: > On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 16:51:08 -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > >> Sorry, there is no little menu after hardware detection. I immediately > >> get the screen titled "[!!] Detecting hardware and loading kernel modules" > >> that says "Your installation CD-ROM couldn't be mounted.This probably... > >> ...Try again to mount the CD-ROM?" Selecting "Yes" just repeats this > >> screen, selecting "No" displays the next screen "Failed to find and > >> mount a Debian CD". The only choice "Continue" gets me back into the main > >> menu where I could select "Load installer components" which starts > >> HW detection again. The second time around, I get some more detailed > >> information: modules initio and 8139too are missing (if I understand > >> D-I correctly by now, priorty has been changed). > > > >Yes, and right after that you will get the little menu that I alluded > >to. > > Sorry, no little menu, but the screen saying my CD could not be mounted. > This is the loop: > > Main Menu (Load Installer components) > HW detection > "Unable to load some modules" > "Your installation CD could not be mounted" > "Failed to find and mount a Debian CD-ROM" > Main Menu (Detect and mount CD-ROM) > > Or, exactly the same except for the starting point: > > Main Menu (Detect and mount CD-ROM) > HW detection > "Unable to load some modules" > "Your installation CD could not be mounted" > "Failed to find and mount a Debian CD-ROM" > Main Menu (Detect and mount CD-ROM)
Funny, I'd run into this same problem 94 days ago, and I filed a bug then, but forgot about it. This is bug #218774 (main-menu). I'm tempted to "fix" this bug by putting load-cdrom and load-floppy[1] on the CDROM, dropping load-installer entirly, and removing (or ignoring?) the apparently broken code in main-menu that handles chooing amoung virtual packages that satisfy a dependency. Matt, do you have any thoughts? As far as I can see, you touched this part of main-menu last. -- see shy jo [1] Actually it would be a special late-load-floppy, with a menu-item-number that puts it after load-cdrom.
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