[CentOS] X330 Keyboard/box dies on install 4.0, not on 3.4

Graham Johnston johnstong at westmancom.com
Fri Apr 22 13:43:34 UTC 2005


 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Graham Johnston
> Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 6:49 PM
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> Subject: RE: [CentOS] X330 Keyboard/box dies on install 4.0, 
> not on 3.4
> 
>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
> > [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Karl S. Katzke
> > Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 5:57 PM
> > To: centos at centos.org
> > Subject: [CentOS] X330 Keyboard/box dies on install 4.0, not on 3.4
> > 
> > I've got a handful of IBM X330's at my colo and another 
> couple at the 
> > office for testing purposes. Currently, they're running 
> > CentOS 3.4 and 
> > are very happy doing so. The 3.4 install was perfectly seamless.
> > 
> > When I tried to upgrade one of my test machines to 4.0, the 
> keyboard 
> > died once I got into the install every single time once I boot to 
> > anaconda from the CD. It dies as soon as the blue-background screen 
> > appears, and it dies no matter which selection I choose at 
> isolinux. 
> > (I'm sure the system isn't locked because the keyboard is 
> > dead while the 
> > SCSI driver is loading, and the system keeps chugging along happily 
> > until it needs input.)
> > The CD passes all of the tests I can apply to it, from 
> > checksum to media 
> > check, and has been used to install a half dozen machines 
> > both before or 
> > since. I also downloaded a new ISO from a different mirror 
> > and reburnt 
> > another one; it's most certainly the install package. The 
> box itself 
> > runs 3.4 quite happily. Note that x330s use IBM's cable-chaining 
> > technology, which is great if you've got a tiny colo rack 
> > with a lot of 
> > servers in it like I do, since I don't have to have a KVM.
> > 
> > So what changed in the install process? How can I get this 
> > resolved well 
> > enough to be able to use the CentOS 4 CDs? both the 3.4 and 
> > 4.0 install  
> > I realize that I could reaim my repository and upgrade to 4 
> > via yum, but 
> > that's a pain if I'm having to bring a whole box back up from 
> > scratch... 
> > not to mention a nice hit to my bandwidth bill at my colo.
> > 
> > Suggestions? Ideas?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance,
> > -Karl Katzke
> 
> Karl,
> 	I am not sure that it is the x330.  We also have half a dozen
> x330s and although I don't have centos 4 on all of them I am confident
> that we have successfully installed centos 4 at least three times on
> this server.  We are also using the dvi like breakout cable, and it
> attaches to an HP cat5 kvm.
> 
> Graham
> 
Karl,
	Sorry I lied, I have installed centos 4 on x335s not x330s.  

Graham



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