Hi, I got the same issue using usbkey install with today's debianinstaller build [1,2]. The symptoms are exactly the same as those reported by the original poster; the only difference is that I'm running amd64 and using a more recent daily build.
[1] http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/amd64/20110409-00:16/hd-media/boot.img.gz [2] http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/20110409-3/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso Please find attached the logs of this failed installation attempt. Cheers, -- Benoît Knecht
debian-installer-logs-2011-04-09.tar.bz2
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