Installer froze during root.img extraction

Hi, Super pumped to be able to give Asahi a shot 😃 Congrats on the release!

I’ve attempted the installer today (M1 Pro), and I got stuck on

Extracting root.img into disk0s7 partition
++++++++++++++++++++++++++

I had to kill it, as it stopped progressing even after 10 minutes and I could not see any I/O activity (no disk, no network).

I’m pretty sure that my macbook went to sleep during that step, as my display is set to turn off after two minutes on battery. Restarting the process with Amphetamine inhibiting sleep worked fine.

If that’s not already the case, may I suggest that the installer inhibits sleep during critical steps, or at least warns about sleep settings? That’s, of course, assuming that my theory about how it got stuck is right.

Sidebar: Recovering from that incomplete state wasn’t straightforward (but easy using some diskutil eraseVolume), but it’s another subject and I didn’t expect the installer to be able to do so. No biggie.

[marcan]

FYI there is a short link at curl -L https://alx.sh/wipe-linux.

[leifliddy]

@abarisain It’s funny because you said

you need to use the diskutil CLI to erase the volumes and start again.
....
I was aware of that script but didn't expect it to work 

But the script IS using the diskutil commands to erase the volumes ; )

You made a excellent point about somehow referencing that script in the event that the installation process goes awry.
That would definitely be useful.