[CentOS] CentOS 5.0 install fails every time.

Thu Apr 19 12:23:21 UTC 2007
rado <rado at rivers-bend.com>

On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 08:04 -0300, Antonio da Silva Martins Junior
wrote:
> ----- "Bernd Bartmann" <bernd.bartmann at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Yep,
> 
>   burned a DVD and it install ok. I'm installing on a test machine 
> MoBo Intel SE7520BD2 with 2 Xeon 2.8GHz HT processors, using the onboard
> LSI Logic SCSI controller, Intel NIC, etc... (I'm using all onboard).
> 
>   I'll try to install on one of my servers (HP DL380 G4) next week.
> 
>   Thanks,
> 
>      Antonio.
> 
> 
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If you trying to install w/an AMD socket 754 processor...it's a no
go...AMD socket 939 works fine either upgrade or install.
John Rose