Comment 9 for bug 684304

No, I was wrong: the cciss module is not automatically loaded. I ran the d-i install until I got the error, and then opened a shell:

~ # lsmod
Module Size Used by
iscsi_tcp 9910 0
libiscsi_tcp 16070 1 iscsi_tcp
libiscsi 46060 2 iscsi_tcp,libiscsi_tcp
scsi_transport_iscsi 37628 3 iscsi_tcp,libiscsi
xfs 776382 0
exportfs 4283 1 xfs
reiserfs 245469 0
jfs 181857 0
btrfs 527739 0
zlib_deflate 21890 1 btrfs
crc32c 3023 1
libcrc32c 1284 1 btrfs
ntfs 97973 0
vfat 11366 0
fat 55023 1 vfat
usb_storage 50402 0
usbhid 40920 0
hid 84505 1 usbhid
bnx2 78004 0
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