@Meelis: As you didn't mention what image you were using exactly, which ISO did you actually use for testing (the date of creation is included in the `/README.txt` on the ISO/disc)?
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4930 apr 12 01:16 README.txt
And I would need an exact replay of the individual steps. We often have people that use the debian-installer in unusual ways like with a custom kernel and initrd and then complain it doesn't work. debian-installer must be booted from the CD image using both the kernel and initrd provided on the CD otherwise it cannot be guaranteed the whole setup works correctly.
Hmm, I do not know what to add - I told I booted from the CD, did not interact with the IPL. I downloaded https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/2019-04-20/debian-10.0-hppa-NETINST-1.iso and retried with that on the sama A180c with external SCSI CD-ROM. And this image seems to work! I loaded components from CD and got me to hard disk partitioning. Will continue some other day when I put another disk in for install test (I do not want to destroy my old installation). So the log below is proabbly not so interesting any more since this one works. It boots the kernel (I have serial capture), then waits long time after [ 13.360438] zbud: loaded [ 58.648187] random: crng init done and then continues with [ 250.214123] Key type asymmetric registered and other kernel messages (including disk and cdrom detection) and then it starts the installer. Select a language: English (default) Select your location: other, Europe, Estonia Configure locales: United States - en_US.UTF-8 (default) Configure the keyboard: American English (default) Detecting hardware to find CD-ROM Loading additional components Configure the network: enp1s20: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 Hostname: a180c (default from DNS) Domain name: also default from my DNS Set up users and passwords: root password 2 times, Full name for the new user, Username for your account, Choose a password for the new user (2 times) Setting the clock (fixed date from Jan 07 to May 7 so it was probably wrong in hardware RTC) Loading additional components Starting up the partitioner Partition disks -- Meelis Roos <[email protected]>
