On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 02:21 -0800, Jeff Lasman wrote: > Circumstances: > > The system is a hardware duplicate of a system that installed and works > for many months. Running CentOS 4.x. > > The system was previously in service with CentOS 3.x and I'm trying to > install CentOS 4.1 on it from downloaded CDs which have worked > previously (these are the same CDs used to install the system that's > working). > > Software RAID. > > Minimal packages > > System appears to install properly, then on first reboot halts with > error: > > (note that this is hand copied, not cut-and-pasted, so there may be > errors in spelling <frown): > > ... > Creating block devices > Creating root device > Mounting root filesystem > kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds > EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. > Freeing unused kernel memory: 228k freed > Warning: unable to open an initial console. > > and system halts with nothing else on screen. > > I even tried downloading the entire /boot partition contents from the > working machine and installing the contents on the /boot partition on > the local machine. > > Same problem. > > I was supposed to get this server into the data center; it's now 02:19. > I'm going home to get a few hours sleep. > > Any suggestions? > Is this happening on the standard kernel from CentOS or a modified kernel? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060118/3a0c7e32/attachment-0004.sig>