[CentOS] CentOS 5.0 install fails every time.

Wed Apr 18 19:22:45 UTC 2007
Bernd Bartmann <bernd.bartmann at gmail.com>

On 4/18/07, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

I have the same problem. md5sum and sha1sum for the i386 and x86_64
DVD images are ok. I can even install without any problem from the DVD
locally. It only fails when doing a NFS install with a similar
SQUASHFS error message as described above. The NFS server is RHES 4U4.

The hardware I'm trying to install to is a Asrock ConRoeXFire-eSATA2
mainboard, a Core2Duo E6600 CPU and 4 GB of RAM. LAN card is a Intel
Gigabit PCI card as the onboard Gigabit Realtek card is not yet
supported with Centos 5.0.

Best regards,
Bernd.