[CentOS] Issues installing x86_64 5.1 on Ultra 40

Fri Dec 14 04:32:27 UTC 2007
James A. Peltier <jpeltier at cs.sfu.ca>

Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> James are your machines Ultra 40 M2's or just plain ol Ultra 40's?
> Ours is the non-M2 model and we had problems with 5.0 as well as 5.1.
>
> However, it appears to be something related to LVM -- specifically
> something the GUI installer is telling LVM to do.  If we manually set
> up the partitions and LVM stuff (from the console while still at the
> welcome screen), everything works fine.  It's only when anaconda
> handles the partitioning and LVM setup that we run into issues.
>
> Interesting.
>
> Ray
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They're regular ol' SUN Ultra 40s.  Running BIOS version 1.400 (I 
believe) nothing special 2 x Dual Core Opteron 240s running at 2.4GHz 
w/8GB of RAM.

When trying to install, my experience nearly mirrors yours perfectly.  
Everything is all fine and dandy until it gets about 50% way through 
formatting and then throws the ATA errors.  When booting rescue with 5.1 
I am able to format the already created LVM volume without issue, 
however it fails with the same errors mentioned when kickstarted.

I just performed an install today on a SUN Ultra 40 and the 5.0 trick 
worked without issue.  Perhaps something in your BIOS?  Try loading the 
default settings and trying again?