Here comes the system info from the BIOS system information screen:
Product NameHP d330 uT(DC579AV)
Processor Type Pentium(R) 4 processor 2400MHz
Processor Speed 2400/800 MHz
Processor Stepping F29
Cache Size (L1/L2) 20/512 KB
Memory Size 512 MB D
> Does this mean that, being indeed a BIOS problem, this bug report can
> be closed...or not immediately?
It didn't quite get to the debian installer proper, so it is
unclear what can be done from within the boot image. (I reckon that a
general purpose USB storage driver set is a bit too much to c
> However, the default setting (-d 0x80) turned out to work OK on another
> machine, with a different motherboard/BIOS, with the very same USB stick.
>
> I see 2 options: 1) try upgrading the BIOS to the latest on the
> problematic machine (I have gotten permission from the University
> sysadmins
Since the original report on this bug thread, I had one more access to the
machine and tried it again. This time I had my USB stick prepared using
"the flexible way" as per the helpful doc at http://d-i.pascal.at/ ;
the partition was made pure FAT16 this time, and only mounted with
mount -t
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