Hope this does not duplicate to the same place, but I sent the following message to a different input. Here it is:
I have tried 4 or 5 times to install Centos 7,* and it seems to install, but it won't boot to KDE or any desktop. It comes up in text mode, and nothing I do will get it into a kde mode.
Or any graphic mode, that I know of. I have enabled a root password, and a user password. I am trying to install on a SSD of 250 GB. The installation appears to work, but it
boots to black screen with white letters. It appears to accept some BASH commands, but it does not respond to startx or startkde. It appears to respond to su, but that doesn't
help. (Or sudo, either, but I'm used to su.) I have tried to clear the SSD completely so there are no partitions on it, not even the Windows 1GB boot partition. (I had that, but Centos
didn't work so I eliminated it.)
* I downloaded a number of tries and burned each to DVD, (one appeared to be defective) but none of them worked. It would help, perhaps, if the downloads included a verification.
I really want an RPM system with kde, and I used PCLOS for years, but the latest version is a great disappointment, and the last upgrade crashed the machine, which is why I,
having tried their April release, I am coming to CentOS--or trying to.
I don't know what information I can provide, but the bare-bones of the system are this:
MOBO: Foxxconn G41MXE/G41MXS-K BIOS: American Megatrends id:0 version 080015, date 10/14/210
CPU: Intel Cor2Duo E8600 @ 3.33GHz Width 64 bits Closck 333MHz
Memory 8Gib
Display: NVidia GF 116
All of this worked perfectly with PCLOS for many years. Please help!
Thanx--doug
On Sat, 27 Apr 2019 20:18:40 -0400 Doug wrote:
I have tried 4 or 5 times to install Centos 7,* and it seems to install, but it won't boot to KDE or any desktop. It comes up in text mode, and nothing I do will get it into a kde mode.
Try booting one of the "live images" and see if it will work that way. A gui should just show up by magic when it finishes booting.
You can install Centos directly from the live image if it works.
On 04/27/2019 09:21 PM, Frank Cox wrote:
On Sat, 27 Apr 2019 20:18:40 -0400 Doug wrote:
I have tried 4 or 5 times to install Centos 7,* and it seems to install, but it won't boot to KDE or any desktop. It comes up in text mode, and nothing I do will get it into a kde mode.
Try booting one of the "live images" and see if it will work that way. A gui should just show up by magic when it finishes booting.
You can install Centos directly from the live image if it works.
I downloaded Centos-7.0-1406x86_64.kdelive.iso, and started it on the machine that I described, which has the 250GB SSD on it. I used the provided md5sum to make sure what I was burning was correct. I then burned the disk with k3B verify, for both the md5sum and the actual download file, and burned the DVD with "verify" which succeded. I started to install the DVD at 10:45 PM on Saturday, and it is now 12:45 AM Sunday Morning. A long incremented list of large numbers followed by the words,
"EXPERIMENTAL Support Enabled"
has been running ever since. I expect it will still be running in the morning when I get up, and after church, when I get home at 1:15PM.
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Is it possible to
1: Get a specification of the computer characteristics on which Centos will run?
1a. Get the computer requirements, especially necescary disk space?
2: Purchase a copy of a disk which is guaranteed to run a CentOS KDE system on the computer which I have described, and and if so, from whom?
--doug
On 04/28/2019 12:53 AM, Doug wrote:
On 04/27/2019 09:21 PM, Frank Cox wrote:
On Sat, 27 Apr 2019 20:18:40 -0400 Doug wrote:
I have tried 4 or 5 times to install Centos 7,* and it seems to install, but it won't boot to KDE or any desktop. It comes up in text mode, and nothing I do will get it into a kde mode.
Try booting one of the "live images" and see if it will work that way. A gui should just show up by magic when it finishes booting.
You can install Centos directly from the live image if it works.
I downloaded Centos-7.0-1406x86_64.kdelive.iso, and started it on the machine that I described, which has the 250GB SSD on it. I used the provided md5sum to make sure what I was burning was correct. I then burned the disk with k3B verify, for both the md5sum and the actual download file, and burned the DVD with "verify" which succeded. I started to install the DVD at 10:45 PM on Saturday, and it is now 12:45 AM Sunday Morning. A long incremented list of large numbers followed by the words,
"EXPERIMENTAL Support Enabled"
has been running ever since. I expect it will still be running in the morning when I get up, and after church, when I get home at 1:15PM.
Is it possible to
1: Get a specification of the computer characteristics on which Centos will run?
1a. Get the computer requirements, especially necescary disk space?
2: Purchase a copy of a disk which is guaranteed to run a CentOS KDE system on the computer which I have described, and and if so, from whom?
--doug
So now it is 14 hours later, and it is still spitting out these numbers, once a minute or so. At the bottom of this interminable list, instead of the former quote, it now says: "Use of these features in this kernel is at your own risk." I'd really like to try this system, but it defies me.
doug
On Sun, 28 Apr 2019 at 14:37, Doug dmcgarrett@optonline.net wrote:
On 04/28/2019 12:53 AM, Doug wrote:
On 04/27/2019 09:21 PM, Frank Cox wrote:
On Sat, 27 Apr 2019 20:18:40 -0400 Doug wrote:
I have tried 4 or 5 times to install Centos 7,* and it seems to install, but it won't boot to KDE or any desktop. It comes up in text mode, and nothing I do will get it into a kde mode.
Try booting one of the "live images" and see if it will work that way. A gui should just show up by magic when it finishes booting.
You can install Centos directly from the live image if it works.
I downloaded Centos-7.0-1406x86_64.kdelive.iso, and started it on the machine that I described, which has the 250GB SSD on it. I used the provided md5sum to make sure what I was burning was correct. I then burned the disk with k3B verify, for both the md5sum and the actual download file, and burned the DVD with "verify" which succeded. I started to install the DVD at 10:45 PM on Saturday, and it is now 12:45 AM Sunday Morning. A long incremented list of large numbers followed by the words,
"EXPERIMENTAL Support Enabled"
has been running ever since. I expect it will still be running in the morning when I get up, and after church, when I get home at 1:15PM.
Is it possible to
1: Get a specification of the computer characteristics on which Centos will run?
1a. Get the computer requirements, especially necescary disk space?
2: Purchase a copy of a disk which is guaranteed to run a CentOS KDE system on the computer which I have described, and and if so, from whom?
--doug
So now it is 14 hours later, and it is still spitting out these numbers, once a minute or so. At the bottom of this interminable list, instead of the former quote, it now says: "Use of these features in this kernel is at your own risk." I'd really like to try this system, but it defies me.
It sounds like there is just a fundamental hardware problem with your system. From the age of the BIOS (2010) and the date of RHEL-7 coming out 2014.. you are at the cusp of upstream hardware support. The problems you are describing could be anything ranging from BIOS/Mobo incompatibility to a whole host of things which would take a while to debug. I would do the following:
1. See if CentOS-6 runs on the hardware. If an ISO fails to boot either via USB or DVD in a similar way then it may be a hardware issue. 2. Download an older version of CentOS-7 from vault.centos.org and see if that will install. 3. Start looking at the hammer boot options which various motherboards need. These can range from acpi=off noapic or a slew of others. [Google for ones which might match your hardware.]
There are 10's of thousands of motherboards manufactured and trying to enumerate which ones aren't usable is not something any volunteer project can do.
On Apr 28, 2019, at 00:53, Doug dmcgarrett@optonline.net wrote:
I downloaded Centos-7.0-1406x86_64.kdelive.iso, and started it on the machine that I
So, that’s an ISO from 2014 with CentOS 7.0.1406. The latest version of CentOS media is 7.6.1810 and you can find ISOs here: http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/7/isos/x86_64/
"EXPERIMENTAL Support Enabled"
This is part of an error output in 7.0.1406 for XFS support, see this for more details: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/htm...
You really ought to use a recent kernel, which you’d get in 7.6.1810.
Is it possible to
1: Get a specification of the computer characteristics on which Centos will run?
1a. Get the computer requirements, especially necescary disk space?
The RHEL installation guide mentions this, and the same holds for CentOS.
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/htm...
2: Purchase a copy of a disk which is guaranteed to run a CentOS KDE system on the computer which I have described, and and if so, from whom?
Just install from a recent Image.
— Jonathan
On Apr 27, 2019, at 8:18 PM, Doug dmcgarrett@optonline.net wrote:
Or any graphic mode, that I know of. I have enabled a root password, and a user password. I am trying to install on a SSD of 250 GB. The installation appears to work, but it
boots to black screen with white letters. It appears to accept some BASH commands, but it does not respond to startx or startkde. It appears to respond to su, but that doesn't
This is a pretty vague description.
Does it boot into the multi-user.target, i.e. the non-graphical login prompt? Are you prompted for a username and password at a login prompt, or just root’s password? It sounds to me like you’re stuck at the emergency rescue shell and not a fully booted system.
-- Jonathan Billings billings@negate.org
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