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
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
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
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 to
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