Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
Eve.8ryone,
I have had a SuperMicro machine running Centos 5.8 that had been progressively updated with yum-cron from a 5.0 CD install.
I upgraded the SuperMicro with more memory, switched out the CD with a DVD and tried to boot to the Centos x64 6.2 dvd. My plan was to test the memory before I added the hard drives, but I could not I could not get the machine to boot from the disc. I also tried some Fedora
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Ok. Next question: what *happens* when you try to boot? Do you get anywhere? Are there any errors showing up onscreen?
We get a one line descriptor at the top of the screen that starts out with
ISOLINUX .......
Sorry, but I can not remember the full line.
The system then hangs at this point, and after this is displayed it does not appear that the DVD drive is accessed again. At least the light on the DVD does not blink again.
If you can boot another server from this DVD, it suggests that there's a driver missing, though if this is an install disk, that's odd. Have you tried <ctrl><alt><f4> or f5? IIRC, those should show what goes into dmesg.
mark
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Mark,
I have installed 4 other machines with this same DVD disc. The only thing that is a little different is that we have not attached a hard disc drive to the SuperMicro yet, we were only at the point of testing the memory.
Thanks for your advice about <ctrl><alt>F4 I will not be able to try this until I can get to the machine, prob 24 hrs. I'll let you know what happens.
Greg