I'll try to install CentOS 4.3 for X86_64. Do you have an idea how I can find out which device causes the keyboard to freeze? I'm not able to watch at the consoles without input device :-( Is there a list which single devices/buses I can disable to probe for? I tried to boot with dd=nfs:<ip>:<path> too. But at the moment the installer tries to load megaraid_sas BEFORE network is reachable :-( So I think I need noprobe the device which freezes the keyboard _and_ in addition I need to find out how to noprobe for any SAS-Device (storage controllers). Does the option scsi=noprobe exists? -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] Im Auftrag von Karanbir Singh Gesendet: Samstag, 15. Juli 2006 01:58 An: CentOS mailing list Betreff: Re: [CentOS] Problems with installation Horchler, Joerg wrote: > Hi all, > > I try to install CentOS 4.3 for X64_64 on a new Dell PowerEdge 2950. I > have two problems: > > 1. > After booting from CD I pressed 'return' to start installation > (BIOS-support for USB-keyboard works). After probing the hardware my > USB-Keyboard is not working anymore. Dell removed ALL PS/2-Interfaces > so I have to use USB. When I start installation with 'linux noprobe' > the keyboard still is working and the installation starts. unfortunately, the usb support at install time is quite limited, what you might need to do is find specifically what h/w is causing the installer / keyboard to freeze up, and disable probe of that device /bus only. the noprobe, by itself, will tend to stop the installer from looking at anything - perhaps, not the desired result. > > 2. > After the installation starts it tries to load the storage drivers. In > the case for this hardware it tries to load megaraid_sas. But it can't > load the driver without an error. The installer just says:"loading > megaraid_sas" for hours and hours (the complete last night). When I start with 'linux noprobe' > I'm able to look at another console (alt+F2) and can try 'lsmod'. The > output for megaraid_sas is 'loading' and not 'live' (again: for hours). you will need, as Jim pointed out already, the drivers from Dell for this - also, i see you have an issue with the /dev/hda instead of the /dev/fd0 coming up, one workaround for this is to convert the drivers into an iso format and burn that to CD... What Ver / Arch of CentOS are you installing here anyway ? in most cases the installer will ask for which device has the Driver Disk ( you only need to boot with linux dd ). the only time that it wont ask, is when it can only find one device which might contain the driver disk ( perhaps with the noprobe the fd0 is not being detected at all ). if you have network, DD=http://somewhere/ should work as well, from the boot line. I've not actually used one of these machines, so just sharing some ideas that might be worth trying. HTH -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 5720 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060717/875f273a/attachment-0005.bin>