Hi Jan, I have seen a number of cases where partitions on the fixed disks from other osses being on the system prevented some installers working / detecting free space to install to ...
I have seen where usb writing software (on other operating systems) did not write the installiimage properly to the usb stick, clearing the partitions and writing zeros ahead of writing the image to the usb did help me with installs before ... but less so about panics and more to do with either booting the install os , or writing the sets to the fixed disks on the box.. On Wed, 7 Sept 2022 at 13:13, Jan Stary <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 1) On initial boot (with 7.1 release, on a usb stick) it more or less > > > > immediately panicked into ddb when I tried to pipe dmesg into a file > on > > > > the usb stick. I took out the NVMe-card, and whether or not that was > the > > > > problem the machine anyhow behaved better long enough for me to get > > > > network and do a fw_update. > > > > > > sure sounds like it could be a bad USB stick. > > > Very common. For important things, I have learned to write zeros over > > > the entire USB stick before expecting it to actually work. Nothing to > > > do with the T5500. > > I am puzzled: how exactly is a zero filled USB stick > less panicky than another USB stick? > > -- Kindest regards, Tom Smyth.
