Circumstances:
The system is a hardware duplicate of a system that installed and works for many months. Running CentOS 4.x.
The system was previously in service with CentOS 3.x and I'm trying to install CentOS 4.1 on it from downloaded CDs which have worked previously (these are the same CDs used to install the system that's working).
Software RAID.
Minimal packages
System appears to install properly, then on first reboot halts with error:
(note that this is hand copied, not cut-and-pasted, so there may be errors in spelling <frown):
... Creating block devices Creating root device Mounting root filesystem kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Freeing unused kernel memory: 228k freed Warning: unable to open an initial console.
and system halts with nothing else on screen.
I even tried downloading the entire /boot partition contents from the working machine and installing the contents on the /boot partition on the local machine.
Same problem.
I was supposed to get this server into the data center; it's now 02:19. I'm going home to get a few hours sleep.
Any suggestions?
Help appreciated.
Thanks.
Jeff
On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 02:21 -0800, Jeff Lasman wrote:
Circumstances:
The system is a hardware duplicate of a system that installed and works for many months. Running CentOS 4.x.
The system was previously in service with CentOS 3.x and I'm trying to install CentOS 4.1 on it from downloaded CDs which have worked previously (these are the same CDs used to install the system that's working).
Software RAID.
Minimal packages
System appears to install properly, then on first reboot halts with error:
(note that this is hand copied, not cut-and-pasted, so there may be errors in spelling <frown):
... Creating block devices Creating root device Mounting root filesystem kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Freeing unused kernel memory: 228k freed Warning: unable to open an initial console.
and system halts with nothing else on screen.
I even tried downloading the entire /boot partition contents from the working machine and installing the contents on the /boot partition on the local machine.
Same problem.
I was supposed to get this server into the data center; it's now 02:19. I'm going home to get a few hours sleep.
Any suggestions?
Is this happening on the standard kernel from CentOS or a modified kernel?
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 02:34 am, Johnny Hughes wrote:
Is this happening on the standard kernel from CentOS or a modified kernel?
Standard install. Standard Kernel.
Jeff
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 02:21 am, Jeff Lasman wrote:
System appears to install properly, then on first reboot halts with error
An update to let interested parties know that I successfully installed the CentOS / Blue Quartz Installation CD v3.5 from:
http://www.nuonce.net/bq-cd.php
Based on CentOS 4.2...
and ran properly when rebooted.
So it's NOT CentOS in general. I'll be studying a few more possibilities and report back.
Jeff
On Saturday 21 January 2006 05:47 pm, Jeff Lasman wrote:
An update to let interested parties know that I successfully installed the CentOS / Blue Quartz Installation CD v3.5
When I finally had time, over a week later, I deleted all the old partitions, and started from scratch, and this time everything worked.
I'll never try to save time by reusing old partitions again.
<wry grin>
Jeff
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