Am Do, den 21.07.2005 schrieb Peter Farrow um 10:03:
I have a K8S-MX Asus Athlon 64 Motherboard with a 754 pin 3000+ CPU, which I cam trying to install 4.1 Centos 64 bit.
The problem seems to arise when installing onto Mirrored disks, I have noticed that from Centos 4 onwards it tries to rebuild the arrays as it installs which slows the whole process right down across all platforms I have tried it on.
Don't know whether I understand you correctly, but RAID1 array sync is started with firstboot after the installation finished.
In addition, the install process bails out at random times with random errors eg. "Disk Full", "error loading this package or that package", Error reading DVD etc... now I have burnt several copies of the DVD, tested them fully, tried installing from CD, even changed the hardware to a twin Opteron system, changed the RAM changed this disks and tried everything but it still seems really touch and go as to wether the install will complete.
I haven't managed it yet on the Asus platform it took about 12 goes on the opteron platform. Yet Centos 3.4 installs no problem.
That can be caused by bad cabling (length + quality) because kernel 2.6 is more sensible for standards. It can too help to deactivate DMA during install with: linux ide=nodma.
Finally the last straw was the boot loader problem with occurs either immediately after reboot after install or on one of the boots soon after, and I have to do this to fix it:
That is a known issue and filed in bugzilla.redhat.com. Didn't happen for my platform, grub was correctly installed, just not placed into both RAID1 drive's MBRs.
Pete
Alexander