So it initially appeared that manually setting up the partitions and LVM seemed to resolve the problem. However, at the time we had swapped out to a different (smaller) hard disk.
When we returned to the original 250GB Sun provided disk, even manually configuring the partitions, LVM and running mkfs.ext3 caused the port to "shut off" and we could not complete the installation. On a whim, we went into BIOS and disabled LBA for the drive. Lo and behold everyhing worked perfectly during the installation -- fully automated from anaconda. However -- the system wouldn't boot after the install completed successfully. To resolve this we had to go into BIOS and re-add the hard disk to the list of bootable devices (weird that it had been removed) and then RE-enable LBA (it will not boot with LBA disabled, doesn't find the boot loader at all). Now the system boots. So the trick appears to be: 1. Disable LBA 2. Install 3. Re-enable LBA 4. Ensure drive is in boot device list Ray _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
