Tearing our hair out on this one. Trying to install CentOS 5 x86_64 on a Supermicro X7DVL-E with 2 Xeon L5320 quad core CPUs, 3Ware SATA RAID controller in a mirrored setup and 4 GB of memory. Installation crashes at random places while copying the files. We've run memtest86 for 24 hours without any errors, replaced the RAID controller, motherboard and disks, but still no luck.
Any thoughts, hints or LARTs appreciated.
--Chris
Chris Boyd wrote:
Tearing our hair out on this one. Trying to install CentOS 5 x86_64 on a Supermicro X7DVL-E with 2 Xeon L5320 quad core CPUs, 3Ware SATA RAID controller in a mirrored setup and 4 GB of memory. Installation crashes at random places while copying the files. We've run memtest86 for 24 hours without any errors, replaced the RAID controller, motherboard and disks, but still no luck.
Any thoughts, hints or LARTs appreciated.
I had similar issues on a recent install. It turned out to be errors on the install media (which I have gotten lazy about checking). I reburned the DVD (with verify enabled this time) and it worked just fine afterwards.
Best,
On Oct 8, 2007, at 12:34 PM, Chris Mauritz wrote:
Chris Boyd wrote:
Tearing our hair out on this one. Trying to install CentOS 5 x86_64 on a Supermicro X7DVL-E with 2 Xeon L5320 quad core CPUs, 3Ware SATA RAID controller in a mirrored setup and 4 GB of memory. Installation crashes at random places while copying the files. We've run memtest86 for 24 hours without any errors, replaced the RAID controller, motherboard and disks, but still no luck.
Any thoughts, hints or LARTs appreciated.
I had similar issues on a recent install. It turned out to be errors on the install media (which I have gotten lazy about checking). I reburned the DVD (with verify enabled this time) and it worked just fine afterwards.
Oops--forgot to mention that we have tried other media and veriifed the CDs we're using.
On Monday 08 October 2007, Chris Boyd wrote:
On Oct 8, 2007, at 12:34 PM, Chris Mauritz wrote:
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I had similar issues on a recent install. It turned out to be errors on the install media (which I have gotten lazy about checking). I reburned the DVD (with verify enabled this time) and it worked just fine afterwards.
Oops--forgot to mention that we have tried other media and veriifed the CDs we're using.
Even so, I'd try the boot.iso (or similar) and http install just to make sure.
/Peter (who everyone by now know hates CDs and DVDs...)
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 12:29:26PM -0500, Chris Boyd wrote:
Tearing our hair out on this one. Trying to install CentOS 5 x86_64 on a Supermicro X7DVL-E with 2 Xeon L5320 quad core CPUs, 3Ware SATA RAID controller in a mirrored setup and 4 GB of memory. Installation crashes at random places while copying the files. We've run memtest86 for 24 hours without any errors, replaced the RAID controller, motherboard and disks, but still no luck.
We have X7DBR-3 with 2x X5355 8 GB of RAM, nothing fancy but work fine here. How do you install? network/cdrom ? how does your kickstart looks like?
Try to add a serial console to log the output or syslog=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx to remote syslog.
Tru
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