[CentOS] Issues installing x86_64 5.1 on Ultra 40

Ray Van Dolson wrote:
>> Try booting while disabling ACPI and APIC.
>>
>> linux noapic noacpi
>>
>> at the boot menu.
> 
> We'll give that a try.
> 
> In addition, error message output:
> 
> An error occurred trying to format VolGroup00/LogVol00. This problem is
> serious, and the install cannot continue.
> 
> Press <Enter> to reboot your system.
> 
> dmesg output
> <6>sd 0:0:0:0 SCSI error: return code = 0x00040000
> <4>end_request: I/0 error, dev sda, sector 504029
> <4>printk: 646939 messages suppressed.
> <3>Buffer I/) error on device dm-0, logical block 19596153
> <4>lost page write due to I/O error on dm-0
> 
> Again, it sure looks like a hardware problem, but using x86 Solaris 10
> on the same disk works perfectly.
> 
> Ray
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I have seen errors such as this too with some cheap no name software 
RAID cards.  I've also seen it on high end SCSI drives as they do the 
bad block remapping.  I'm not saying it's not hardware, especially given 
that it specifically mentions sda sector 504029, but it's worth a shot. 
  Solaris might not be reporting the disk remappings or some such thing, 
who knows.  Perhaps it's only doing a quick format and not a full format 
therefore not even displaying the messages until content begins to be 
written.

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