> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org > [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Karl S. Katzke > Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 5:57 PM > To: centos at 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