-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Graham Johnston Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 6:49 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: RE: [CentOS] X330 Keyboard/box dies on install 4.0, not on 3.4
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Karl S. Katzke Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 5:57 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] X330 Keyboard/box dies on install 4.0, not on 3.4
I've got a handful of IBM X330's at my colo and another
couple at the
office for testing purposes. Currently, they're running CentOS 3.4 and are very happy doing so. The 3.4 install was perfectly seamless.
When I tried to upgrade one of my test machines to 4.0, the
keyboard
died once I got into the install every single time once I boot to anaconda from the CD. It dies as soon as the blue-background screen appears, and it dies no matter which selection I choose at
isolinux.
(I'm sure the system isn't locked because the keyboard is dead while the SCSI driver is loading, and the system keeps chugging along happily until it needs input.) The CD passes all of the tests I can apply to it, from checksum to media check, and has been used to install a half dozen machines both before or since. I also downloaded a new ISO from a different mirror and reburnt another one; it's most certainly the install package. The
box itself
runs 3.4 quite happily. Note that x330s use IBM's cable-chaining technology, which is great if you've got a tiny colo rack with a lot of servers in it like I do, since I don't have to have a KVM.
So what changed in the install process? How can I get this resolved well enough to be able to use the CentOS 4 CDs? both the 3.4 and 4.0 install I realize that I could reaim my repository and upgrade to 4 via yum, but that's a pain if I'm having to bring a whole box back up from scratch... not to mention a nice hit to my bandwidth bill at my colo.
Suggestions? Ideas?
Thanks in advance, -Karl Katzke
Karl, I am not sure that it is the x330. We also have half a dozen x330s and although I don't have centos 4 on all of them I am confident that we have successfully installed centos 4 at least three times on this server. We are also using the dvi like breakout cable, and it attaches to an HP cat5 kvm.
Graham
Karl, Sorry I lied, I have installed centos 4 on x335s not x330s.
Graham
I had a similar problem using an IBM keyboard + extension cable of this generation. The server wasn't IBM at all. When the keyboard died, I just pulled it out of the back, and replugged it again, and it works (the behaviour is reproducible). Sorry, the keyboard model # is not in front of me now. I think something about the keyboard probe maybe causes this keyboard to stop responding.
So try unplugging/replugging your keyboard. Yes this sounds silly. It worked for me.
-ryan
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Graham Johnston wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Graham Johnston Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 6:49 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: RE: [CentOS] X330 Keyboard/box dies on install 4.0, not on 3.4
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Karl S. Katzke Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 5:57 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] X330 Keyboard/box dies on install 4.0, not on 3.4
I've got a handful of IBM X330's at my colo and another
couple at the
office for testing purposes. Currently, they're running CentOS 3.4 and are very happy doing so. The 3.4 install was perfectly seamless.
When I tried to upgrade one of my test machines to 4.0, the
keyboard
died once I got into the install every single time once I boot to anaconda from the CD. It dies as soon as the blue-background screen appears, and it dies no matter which selection I choose at
isolinux.
(I'm sure the system isn't locked because the keyboard is dead while the SCSI driver is loading, and the system keeps chugging along happily until it needs input.) The CD passes all of the tests I can apply to it, from checksum to media check, and has been used to install a half dozen machines both before or since. I also downloaded a new ISO from a different mirror and reburnt another one; it's most certainly the install package. The
box itself
runs 3.4 quite happily. Note that x330s use IBM's cable-chaining technology, which is great if you've got a tiny colo rack with a lot of servers in it like I do, since I don't have to have a KVM.
So what changed in the install process? How can I get this resolved well enough to be able to use the CentOS 4 CDs? both the 3.4 and 4.0 install I realize that I could reaim my repository and upgrade to 4 via yum, but that's a pain if I'm having to bring a whole box back up from scratch... not to mention a nice hit to my bandwidth bill at my colo.
Suggestions? Ideas?
Thanks in advance, -Karl Katzke
Karl, I am not sure that it is the x330. We also have half a dozen x330s and although I don't have centos 4 on all of them I am confident that we have successfully installed centos 4 at least three times on this server. We are also using the dvi like breakout cable, and it attaches to an HP cat5 kvm.
Graham
Karl, Sorry I lied, I have installed centos 4 on x335s not x330s.
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You might try usb-handoff as a kernel option in grub or lilo
-Jay
Graham Johnston wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Graham Johnston Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 6:49 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: RE: [CentOS] X330 Keyboard/box dies on install 4.0, not on 3.4
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Karl S. Katzke Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 5:57 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] X330 Keyboard/box dies on install 4.0, not on 3.4
I've got a handful of IBM X330's at my colo and another
couple at the
office for testing purposes. Currently, they're running CentOS 3.4 and are very happy doing so. The 3.4 install was perfectly seamless.
When I tried to upgrade one of my test machines to 4.0, the
keyboard
died once I got into the install every single time once I boot to anaconda from the CD. It dies as soon as the blue-background screen appears, and it dies no matter which selection I choose at
isolinux.
(I'm sure the system isn't locked because the keyboard is dead while the SCSI driver is loading, and the system keeps chugging along happily until it needs input.) The CD passes all of the tests I can apply to it, from checksum to media check, and has been used to install a half dozen machines both before or since. I also downloaded a new ISO from a different mirror and reburnt another one; it's most certainly the install package. The
box itself
runs 3.4 quite happily. Note that x330s use IBM's cable-chaining technology, which is great if you've got a tiny colo rack with a lot of servers in it like I do, since I don't have to have a KVM.
So what changed in the install process? How can I get this resolved well enough to be able to use the CentOS 4 CDs? both the 3.4 and 4.0 install I realize that I could reaim my repository and upgrade to 4 via yum, but that's a pain if I'm having to bring a whole box back up from scratch... not to mention a nice hit to my bandwidth bill at my colo.
Suggestions? Ideas?
Thanks in advance, -Karl Katzke
Karl, I am not sure that it is the x330. We also have half a dozen x330s and although I don't have centos 4 on all of them I am confident that we have successfully installed centos 4 at least three times on this server. We are also using the dvi like breakout cable, and it attaches to an HP cat5 kvm.
Graham
Karl, Sorry I lied, I have installed centos 4 on x335s not x330s.
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