Hi,
I tried to install Centos7 x86_64 minimal 1503-01 from an USB flash drive on my old Dell Latitude E6500 laptop.
boots up in text mode, switches text resolution, writes:
Started Show Plymouth Boot Screen Reached Target Paths Reached Target Basic System.
then hangs for some time, eventually starting dracut emergency shell. log says:
multipathd: sdb: spurious uevent, path already in pathvec multipathd: sda: spurious uevent, path already in pathvec
interesting: sdb is the internal 240GB kingston SSD drive (existing ntfs bitlocker partition recognized as sdb1)
sda is the write protected USB stick, recognised as CDROM drive.
4GB rom intel 45 express chipset mobile intel GMA 4500MHD graphics intel 5100AGN wifi
what to try next? any additional infos I can give you?
thnx in advance.
On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 08:55:58PM +0200, Rainer Fügenstein wrote:
Hi,
I tried to install Centos7 x86_64 minimal 1503-01 from an USB flash drive on my old Dell Latitude E6500 laptop. [...] what to try next? any additional infos I can give you?
At a bare minimum, I'd try using CentOS 7 1804: http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/7/isos/x86_64/
1503 is 3 years old, perhaps you'll have better luck with something more up to date.
Hello Jonathan,
Saturday, May 12, 2018, 9:39:01 PM, you wrote:
At a bare minimum, I'd try using CentOS 7 1804: http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/7/isos/x86_64/
thanks; after some waiting time, 1804 now keeps repeating "dracut initqueue timeout - starting timeout scripts" for a while, then drops into the emergency shell. no suspicious error messages in the log.
did change SATA mode from ATA to AHCI in the BIOS, but this didn't change anything.
On 05/12/2018 03:24 PM, Rainer Fügenstein wrote:
Hello Jonathan,
Saturday, May 12, 2018, 9:39:01 PM, you wrote:
At a bare minimum, I'd try using CentOS 7 1804: http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/7/isos/x86_64/
thanks; after some waiting time, 1804 now keeps repeating "dracut initqueue timeout - starting timeout scripts" for a while, then drops into the emergency shell. no suspicious error messages in the log.
did change SATA mode from ATA to AHCI in the BIOS, but this didn't change anything.
Is the bios on the Dell Latitude E6500 up to date.
I run CentOS-7 on a bunch of dell laptops with intel video. Not that specific model though.
Does this laptop have the Nvidia Quadro graphics option? If so try booting with NOMODESET. Also, if available in the BIOS turn OFF switchable graphics.
Mike
Mike, Johnny,
BIOS is version A29, which is the latest one on the dell website.
Does this laptop have the Nvidia Quadro graphics option? If so try booting with NOMODESET. Also, if available in the BIOS turn OFF switchable graphics.
no, it just has intel onboard graphics, there's also no option for switchable graphics in the BIOS. NOMODESET didn't change anything, but it inspired me to remove the "quiet" kernel parameter.
now the following message can be seen:
duplicate ACPI video bus devices for the same VGA controller, please try module parameter "video.allowduplicates=1" if the current driver doesn't work.
I just don't know where to put this video.allow... parameter. did not work as grub kernel parameter.
On Sun, 13 May 2018 20:41:07 +0200 Rainer Fügenstein wrote:
I just don't know where to put this video.allow... parameter. did not work as grub kernel parameter.
Uncle Google tells me:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/where-do-i-put-this-li...
Hello,
On Sat, 12 May 2018 20:55:58 +0200 Rainer Fügenstein rfu@oudeis.org wrote:
I tried to install Centos7 x86_64 minimal 1503-01 from an USB flash drive on my old Dell Latitude E6500 laptop.
boots up in text mode, switches text resolution, writes:
Started Show Plymouth Boot Screen Reached Target Paths Reached Target Basic System.
then hangs for some time, eventually starting dracut emergency shell. log says:
multipathd: sdb: spurious uevent, path already in pathvec multipathd: sda: spurious uevent, path already in pathvec
interesting: sdb is the internal 240GB kingston SSD drive (existing ntfs bitlocker partition recognized as sdb1)
sda is the write protected USB stick, recognised as CDROM drive.
4GB rom intel 45 express chipset mobile intel GMA 4500MHD graphics intel 5100AGN wifi
what to try next? any additional infos I can give you?
For the sake of the archives.. I ran into the exact same problem yesterday: trying to install CentOS 7 on a good old Dell Latitude E6500 (the everything-1908 iso set into a USB flashdrive) and no way to boot. Worked around the issue by booting from the LiveGNOME one! Then installed to disk beside Windows and CentOS 6, now everything is fine.
Thanks to Rainer for his help, in private.
Regards,
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