FAI install hangs on endless "scrolling screen" with kernel 2.6

[Henning Sprang]

Hy,
I already had this error some time ago, but forgot to report ist here.

I am just installing a new machine with FAI, so I am using a brand new
disk config.

When using kernel 2.6, the installation keeps hanging on the disk config
task, and the screen has an endless scrolling in the area where the log
is shown otherwise (the banner is still intact) with something with the
words "boot" and "block" which i cannot quite read.

When i had it some time ago, I could solve it by making the /boot
partition ext2 instead of ext3, the trouble just goes away then.

I did not try it for another reason, but as far as i know, this doesn't
happen with Kernel 2.4

Does anybody have an idea what this is about? I mean, I do not
neccessarily need ext3 for /boot, but it's annoying not even to know
what it is.

Please let me know if you want/need to see some logfiles, but as far as
i can remember, when i had the trouble before, there wasn't any hint
there, even when i wrote a special script and changed the fai rcS script
to write logs more often to the logserver while installing, not only
when install was finished. The solution just came by accident, or
because i was so despaired that changing the fs type for /boot was a not
very hopeful but the last possible idea.

Henning