I've installed WBEL4 (so CentOS should be fine too, though it could be that some support has been droped from respin 2?) on a few xSeries eServer 300s without any problems at all as far as I can remember. Are those the systems you're talking about?
Some of the larger xSeries boxes have given me problems with PXE and Kickstart but I'm sure I've performed PXE/Kickstart and CD-based installs on e300s.
Can you boot into "linux rescue" from the CD? Does "linux text" get you any further?
Will.
On 30/11/05, HaraldFinnås spamcatcher@lantrix.no wrote:
I'm trying to install CentOS 4.2 on an old IBM x300 server, but it hangs during the boot from cd. The last entries I can see before it dies are the two "agpgart" lines. I've been playing around with bios settings (video settings and serial settings since the serial driver is the next thing going on in the kernel) and boot params (noapic, acpi=off etc) but I just can't get this thing up and running. It's been working like a charm (and still does) with CentOS 3.
Any tips?
Regards, Harald
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