On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 8:07 AM, Robert Benjamin benjie1@cox.net wrote:
If you can log in and use an editor in character mode you can fix it. The change needed in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 will be obvious once you get that far. But, it might be easier to reinstall if you don't know how to do that. Since it is a new install anyway you won't lose anything.
In the CentOS forum under Software Support is my thread: Centos 6.4won't install on reboot. Post number 27 or 28 lists the output I got from FAQ2 above from cat /etc /sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 My guess is the most important line there is ONBOOT=yes Anyway, there are suggestions in the forum which I will follow and then post the results back to the forum. Thanks again.
Yes, the ONBOOT=yes is already there. However, some of the other parts of that thread make me think that your network interface actually comes up but you are not getting a DHCP address or the DHCP server supplies a DNS server address that does not work. These would usually be supplied by your internet router. Are you confident that it is set up correctly?
The reason I think this is the problem is the post where you said you could log in after a very long delay. About the only thing that can cause a very long delay is the system waiting for DNS responses on what it thinks is a working network interface. The next things needed for further diagnosis would be the output of the 'ifconfig' command after you are able to log in, and the results from 'cat /etc/resolv.conf. The first should show the IP address assigned by DHCP from the router, and the second will have the DNS nameserver address(es).