I'm having a problem installing CentOS 8 from a USB drive. When the installer boots from the USB, it displays the language selection screen. After I select English and continue, the installer freezes. The USB drive flashes a couple times over the next minute or so, the stops. The mouse moves the cursor, but the installer is unresponsive to either selecting QUIT or HELP.
I've tried both the default and the basic graphic install with the same results.
Details: CentOS-8-x86-1905-dvd1.iso (sha256 verified) ASUS Prime B350 Plus motherboard AMD Ryzen 5 1600 CPU 32Gb DRAM 4 SATA drives in RAID/LVM configuration. M.2 500Gb Samsung SSD (not formatted)
On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 8:20 PM Michael Eager eager@eagerm.com wrote:
I'm having a problem installing CentOS 8 from a USB drive. When the installer boots from the USB, it displays the language selection screen. After I select English and continue, the installer freezes. The USB drive flashes a couple times over the next minute or so, the stops. The mouse moves the cursor, but the installer is unresponsive to either selecting QUIT or HELP.
I've tried both the default and the basic graphic install with the same results.
Stupid (as in I am guilty of that) question: do you know if this USB is not a bum? The later explains why I could not my raspberry pi booting. Replacing with a new sd card solved this issue.
If you want to be lazy and have a hypervisor, create an vm guest and boot it using the usb.
With that said, it is possible that while you are having an uncooperative gui you can still switch screens (i.e. keyboard still listening to you) to screen 1 or 2 and then take a look at the dmesg/log output for clues of what went boink.
Details: CentOS-8-x86-1905-dvd1.iso (sha256 verified) ASUS Prime B350 Plus motherboard AMD Ryzen 5 1600 CPU 32Gb DRAM 4 SATA drives in RAID/LVM configuration. M.2 500Gb Samsung SSD (not formatted)
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On 12/24/19 6:39 AM, Mauricio Tavares wrote:
On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 8:20 PM Michael Eager eager@eagerm.com wrote:
I'm having a problem installing CentOS 8 from a USB drive. When the installer boots from the USB, it displays the language selection screen. After I select English and continue, the installer freezes. The USB drive flashes a couple times over the next minute or so, the stops. The mouse moves the cursor, but the installer is unresponsive to either selecting QUIT or HELP.
I've tried both the default and the basic graphic install with the same results.
Stupid (as in I am guilty of that) question: do you know if thisUSB is not a bum? The later explains why I could not my raspberry pi booting. Replacing with a new sd card solved this issue.
CentOS completes the self-test without error before booting. Booting completes without apparent problem. My guess is that the USB is good.
If you want to be lazy and have a hypervisor, create an vm guest and boot it using the usb.
I can try that. It will tell me if there is a HW/BIOS issue.
With that said, it is possible that while you are having an uncooperative gui you can still switch screens (i.e. keyboard still listening to you) to screen 1 or 2 and then take a look at the dmesg/log output for clues of what went boink.
Good idea -- I hadn't thought of that.
Details: CentOS-8-x86-1905-dvd1.iso (sha256 verified) ASUS Prime B350 Plus motherboard AMD Ryzen 5 1600 CPU 32Gb DRAM 4 SATA drives in RAID/LVM configuration. M.2 500Gb Samsung SSD (not formatted)
-- Michael Eager eager@eagerm.com 1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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On 12/23/19 5:19 PM, Michael Eager wrote:
I'm having a problem installing CentOS 8 from a USB drive. When the installer boots from the USB, it displays the language selection screen. After I select English and continue, the installer freezes. The USB drive flashes a couple times over the next minute or so, the stops. The mouse moves the cursor, but the installer is unresponsive to either selecting QUIT or HELP.
I resolved the problem.
I had a multi-Tb external RAID box attached by USB to the system. Apparently, the installer was trying to analyze the available space and either failing or taking forever. Once I disconnected the external drive, the installer was able to find the local disks.
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