[CentOS] Supermicro X7DVL-E and Xeon L5320 installation problems
Chris Boyd
cboyd at gizmopartners.com
Mon Oct 8 17:43:17 UTC 2007
On Oct 8, 2007, at 12:34 PM, Chris Mauritz wrote:
> Chris Boyd wrote:
>> Tearing our hair out on this one. Trying to install CentOS 5
>> x86_64 on a Supermicro X7DVL-E with 2 Xeon L5320 quad core CPUs,
>> 3Ware SATA RAID controller in a mirrored setup and 4 GB of
>> memory. Installation crashes at random places while copying the
>> files. We've run memtest86 for 24 hours without any errors,
>> replaced the RAID controller, motherboard and disks, but still no
>> luck.
>>
>> Any thoughts, hints or LARTs appreciated.
>
> I had similar issues on a recent install. It turned out to be
> errors on the install media (which I have gotten lazy about
> checking). I reburned the DVD (with verify enabled this time) and
> it worked just fine afterwards.
Oops--forgot to mention that we have tried other media and veriifed
the CDs we're using.
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