[CentOS] install won't boot

Wed Jan 18 10:34:32 UTC 2006
Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com>

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?
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