On Mar 11, 2009, at 4:44 PM, Michael Peterson <mpeter...@mail.charlesfurniture.com > wrote:
> William L. Maltby wrote: >> On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 16:37 -0500, Michael Peterson wrote: >> >>> I used google but did not come up with anything current to solve >>> my problem. >>> I have not tried any other search engines yet. >>> There is not a search for the CentOS list so I am creating a new >>> post. >>> >> >> See below - it's really hard to find. >> >> >>> I have tested the CentOS 5.2 and RHEL 5.3 CD's and they passed. >>> I had to use linux mediacheck ide=nodma to get them to pass. >>> The newest releases seem to most times fail with just linux >>> mediacheck. >>> >> >> Try making the media after padding the iso image with about 300k of >> zeros. When you search the archives (there is a search - I'll mention >> below) there are a couple of threads about this. >> >> >>> I have tried linux ide=nodma and >>> linux text ide=nodma after trying >>> linux and >>> linux text >>> >>> Anaconda fails on both CentOS 5.2 and RHEL 5.3 in all cases. >>> >> >> With only 512MB or ram you will have to use text mode only, IIRC. >> Also >> in the archives. There's also some threads that mention noacpi, >> acpi=no >> and some other stuff I can't recall. >> >> >>> The system I am trying to install on is running CentOS 3.x. >>> >>> The hardware is P4 2.8 CPU, 512 MB RAM, 120GB 3ware IDE/PATA RAID >>> HD, >>> ATI Video, CDRW CD, Dual Nic, Floppy and IDE/PATA Tape drive. >>> >>> Please provide any options to the kernel that I should try besides >>> the >>> ones mentioned above that fail. >>> <snip> >>> >> >> For your google searches, go to the advanced section and specify >> centos.org. That gets what's in the archives. To search directly from >> CentOS site, click "Search" on http://centos.org/ >> >> HTH, >> > The system I am trying to install on boot with out problems or > errors on > the 5.2 Live CD. > Gui works > Firefox and Network work > > I tried the options mentioned and more and get the same errors. > They are: > > Starting graphical installation ... > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 900, in ? iutil.makeDriveDeviceNodes() > File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iutil.py". line 264, in makeDriveDeviceNodes > isys.makeDevinode(device, "dev /%s" % (device,)) > File "/usr/lib/anaconda.isys.py", line 422, inmakeDevInode > _isys.mkdevinode(name,fn) > SystemError: (2, 'No such file or directory') > install exited abnormally [1/1] > sending termination signals ... done > > > The RHEL 5.3 boot disk is the same as above except the line 900 is > 924. > > I have tried text and GUI and ide=nodma pci=noacpi with both. Make sure "Install Mode" is disabled in the BIOS as it will limit memory to 256MB in some machines which will make GUI install bork. -Ross _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
