[CentOS] CentOS 5.0 install fails every time.

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 4/18/07, Antonio da Silva Martins Junior <asmartins at uem.br> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   Well, my symptom differs but in the end I can't install either!
>
>   I had downloaded both the i386 and x86_64 DVDs (MD5 are ok on both).
>
>   I had this DVDs loop-mounted on my NFS server, and tried install from this
> using an boot CD. This method works nice on 4.92.
>
>   The install process runs ok, but after format the install partition it hangs,
> on the console the last messages are:
>
> <5>SQUASHFS error: sb_bread failed reading block 0xa87f
> <5>SQUASHFS error: Unable to read page, block 2a10520, size faca
>
>   Somebody else runs on this?
>
>   I had installed 4.92 on the same way without a problem!
>

I have seen this with the upstream kernel. I had thought it was a
problem with their 'licensing' subcode but it looks like it might be
something more. What kind of hardware are you trying to install on?
The problem we saw was on Dell Optiplex 740's and some Sun AMD boxes.

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Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator
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