I'm trying to reinstall CentOS on a machine I've reconditioned for it, but for reasons I can't fathom, when the installation disk comes up and prompts for the install type, and I type either <enter> (graphics isntall) or "linux text"<enter>, after it loads the initrd image, the machine shuts off.
It's an older machine I built myself (and ran CentOS on for a number of years), AMD Athlon 64 x2, 2GB of memory, 2 SATA hard drives, ECS GE6100PM-M2 motherboard.
I should probably even know the answer to this one, but I'm stumped.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
2011/3/11 Mark mhullrich@gmail.com:
I'm trying to reinstall CentOS on a machine I've reconditioned for it,
is it really working? check for broken memory chips and so..
but for reasons I can't fathom, when the installation disk comes up and prompts for the install type, and I type either <enter> (graphics isntall) or "linux text"<enter>, after it loads the initrd image, the machine shuts off.
It's an older machine I built myself (and ran CentOS on for a number of years), AMD Athlon 64 x2, 2GB of memory, 2 SATA hard drives, ECS GE6100PM-M2 motherboard.
What error messages it displays?
-- Eero
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 8:18 PM, Eero Volotinen eero.volotinen@iki.fi wrote:
2011/3/11 Mark mhullrich@gmail.com:
I'm trying to reinstall CentOS on a machine I've reconditioned for it,
is it really working? check for broken memory chips and so..
The memory was working perfectly before I put it into this boc (came out of another one that's been running for months).
but for reasons I can't fathom, when the installation disk comes up and prompts for the install type, and I type either <enter> (graphics isntall) or "linux text"<enter>, after it loads the initrd image, the machine shuts off.
It's an older machine I built myself (and ran CentOS on for a number of years), AMD Athlon 64 x2, 2GB of memory, 2 SATA hard drives, ECS GE6100PM-M2 motherboard.
What error messages it displays?
None - the dots print out, then the screen goes black and the machine shuts off.
Try checking the power supply, swap in another one from a different pc.
Chris
-----Original Message----- From: Mark Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 10:50 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Installation failure
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 8:18 PM, Eero Volotinen eero.volotinen@iki.fi wrote:
2011/3/11 Mark mhullrich@gmail.com:
I'm trying to reinstall CentOS on a machine I've reconditioned for it,
is it really working? check for broken memory chips and so..
The memory was working perfectly before I put it into this boc (came out of another one that's been running for months).
but for reasons I can't fathom, when the installation disk comes up and prompts for the install type, and I type either <enter> (graphics isntall) or "linux text"<enter>, after it loads the initrd image, the machine shuts off.
It's an older machine I built myself (and ran CentOS on for a number of years), AMD Athlon 64 x2, 2GB of memory, 2 SATA hard drives, ECS GE6100PM-M2 motherboard.
What error messages it displays?
None - the dots print out, then the screen goes black and the machine shuts off. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1204 / Virus Database: 1497/3499 - Release Date: 03/10/11
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Chris Weisiger cweisiger@bellsouth.net wrote:
Try checking the power supply, swap in another one from a different pc.
Yeah, I figured that out about half an hour ago and got it going. Shoulda thought of that up front.
Interestingly, I have a power supply tester I bought at CompUSA before they left SoCal, and it said that power supply was fine. Ha ha ha. I think I need a new one, one that actually works....
Thanks, everyone.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1
Mark said the following on 11/03/11 04:51:
Any suggestions?
If is not an issue related to the hardware try with
linux text acpi=off
Ciao, luigi
- -- / +--[Luigi Rosa]-- \
You can tune a filesystem, but you can't tuna fish.
-
Chris Weisiger -
Eero Volotinen -
Luigi Rosa -
Mark