Phil Schaffner wrote: > On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 13:33 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote: >> I found out (in the Fedore archives ;-) that the boot option "nodmraid" (for the install kernel) >> would be helpful. I checked it, and this really helps: the installation is totally performed - no >> hangup, and afterwards the system runs with centOS 5. > > Can't get to my problematic system to test at the moment, but do recall > seeing that reference and don't think it worked for me. I do know that > my system will not boot CentOS 5 with any of the CentOS kernels, but > will run on recent Fedora or CentOS 4 kernels, as documented in > > http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1879 > > That references upstream > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=186272 > > There have been boot problems with different Promise controllers with > somewhat different symptoms. Mine is > > 00:11.0 Mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20575 (SATAII150 TX2plus) (rev 02) > > Not a RAID controller. What exact hardware are you finding the > nodmraid work-around helps on? Promise PDC20319u SATA 150 RAID JB > > Phil > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de> University of Kaiserslautern,Computer Center [RHRK], Systems and Operations, High Performance Computing, D-67653 Kaiserslautern, PO Box 3049, Germany -------------------------------------------------- Phone: +49-631-205-2438, FAX: +49-631-205-3056 http://hlrwm.rhrk.uni-kl.de/home/staff/backes.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 6088 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070424/1075f96b/attachment-0004.bin>