[CentOS] Install Problems Centos 4.1

Thu Jul 21 08:03:39 UTC 2005
Peter Farrow <peter at farrows.org>

Dear All,

I have a K8S-MX Asus Athlon 64 Motherboard with a 754 pin 3000+ CPU, 
which I cam trying to install 4.1 Centos 64 bit.

The problem seems to arise when installing onto Mirrored disks,  I have 
noticed that from Centos 4 onwards it tries to rebuild the arrays as it 
installs which slows the whole process right down across all platforms I 
have tried it on.

In addition, the install process bails out at random times with random 
errors eg.  "Disk Full", "error loading this package or that package",  
Error reading DVD etc... now I have burnt several copies of the DVD, 
tested them fully, tried installing from CD, even changed the hardware 
to a twin Opteron system, changed the RAM changed this disks and tried 
everything but it still seems really touch and go as to wether the 
install will complete.

I haven't managed it yet on the Asus platform it took about 12 goes on 
the opteron platform.  Yet Centos 3.4 installs no problem.

Finally the last straw was the boot loader problem with occurs either 
immediately after reboot after install or on one of the boots soon 
after, and I have to do this to fix it:
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grub> root (hd0,0)
 Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0xfd

grub> setup (hd0)
 Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
 Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes
 Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
 Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"...  16 sectors are
embedded.
succeeded
 Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+16 p
(hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/grub.conf"... succeeded
Done.

grub> root (hd1,0)
 Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0xfd

grub> setup (hd1)
 Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
 Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes
 Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
 Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd1)"...  16 sectors are
embedded.
succeeded
 Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd1) (hd1)1+16 p
(hd1,0)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/grub.conf"... succeeded
Done.

grub> quit
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Has anyone else seen these tedious unpredicatble errors on install that 
seems to have arrived with version 4 onwards...?

Regards

Pete