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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos 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. -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF | GrUVi @ Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-3610 Fax : 778-782-3045 Mobile : 778-840-6434 E-Mail : jpeltier at cs.sfu.ca Website : http://gruvi.cs.sfu.ca | http://scirf.cs.sfu.ca MSN : subatomic_spam at hotmail.com