Package: grub Version: 0.97-28 Severity: normal Tags: d-i To reproduce this hang:
qemu-system-x86_64 -cdrom debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso -hda disk -boot d Go through the install process to the grub install stage (I choose the partition layout with separate /boot and /home, but I doubt it matters). It will hang on 'grub-install (hd0)', apparently forever (I've waited up to 4 hours for it IIRC). This is at the point where grub-install says "Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.". I have seen the hang when running qemu on 2 amd64 host systems: Linux hydra 2.6.20-1-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Apr 24 21:10:58 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux Linux bluebird 2.6.16.29-xen #3 SMP Sun Oct 15 13:15:34 BST 2006 86_64 GNU/Linux As well as on my laptop: Linux kodama 2.6.20-1-686 #1 SMP Tue Apr 24 21:52:11 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux I am not using kqemu on the amd64s (seems to be unstable). I'm using qemu version 0.9.0-[12]. I also was able to try kvm on hydra, and I do not see the problem there. I don't know if this is a qemu, kernel, or grub problem, really. However, is seems similar to hangs in the same place that users occasionally report when installing to real hardware. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.20-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages grub depends on: ii libc6 2.5-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libncurses5 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand grub recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- see shy jo
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