Hi. I'm trying to install CentOs 4.3 on a "old" server. Cd's are ok, as i am able to use them in another computers.
What happens is that initial text screen shows up (asking if i want to install in text or grpahics mode), but either way all that happens is that i get a cursor blinking on the top left corner for a long period of time.
anything i can try?
thank you.
Define 'old'. Is this a piece of hardware where you'd want to use the i586 install option to get things going? Some older boards had buggy acpi issues so booting with noapci or possibly even noapic might help. If you could give us some idea of the hardware we can probably offer better advice.
I've tried both noacpi and noapic but none works
About the hardware it has a adaptec aic-7890 scsi controller (Bios version 2.20A) and a emulex lp8000 (?)
The sinthom is the same: after loading vmlinuz screen goes black with a blinking cursor on the top left of the screen
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Jim Perrin Sent: quarta-feira, 1 de Novembro de 2006 12:32 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] unable to start installing
Define 'old'. Is this a piece of hardware where you'd want to use the i586 install option to get things going? Some older boards had buggy acpi issues so booting with noapci or possibly even noapic might help. If you could give us some idea of the hardware we can probably offer better advice.
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Daniel Teixeira wrote:
the aic stuff can sometimes take a very long time to setup and run on the 2.6 kernel ( on your machine spec it might not come up at all! )
try booting the installer into debug mode, see how far it gets. Alternatively, disable the aic stuff completely ( the kernel doc has the options )
Finally, try the CentOS-3 installer. some of these really old cards are better supported there.
hth
On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 12:16 +0000, Daniel Teixeira wrote:
What does 'old server' mean for you ? If it's an pentium 1st generation you should go the i586 way. If it's a more recent processor, the normal install should work. What i've already had is that i had to specify the 'nofb' paramater because the vga card didn't support it ...
Sorry, forgot to say it's a pentium Xeon 550Mhz
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Fabian Arrotin Sent: quarta-feira, 1 de Novembro de 2006 14:45 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] unable to start installing
On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 12:16 +0000, Daniel Teixeira wrote:
What does 'old server' mean for you ? If it's an pentium 1st generation you should go the i586 way. If it's a more recent processor, the normal install should work. What i've already had is that i had to specify the 'nofb' paramater because the vga card didn't support it ...
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