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