[CentOS] Problems with installation

Mon Jul 17 13:00:33 UTC 2006
Matt Hyclak <hyclak at math.ohiou.edu>

On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 09:26:55AM +0200, Horchler, Joerg enlightened us:
> 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? 
> 

You can boot with the 'nostorage' option to disable all storage controllers,
then add the appropriate drivers in by hand after the driver disk is loaded.

Matt

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