[CentOS] ARGH!!! Instal fails at drive format time

[Mark Weaver]

Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> Mark Weaver wrote:
>> Ray Van Dolson wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 05:14:05PM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>>> Got all the way through the selection of packages. All those time 
>>>> consuming tasks and the install got to formating the drive and 
>>>> crashed on a format error!
>>>>
>>>> Since I know exactly how I want to lay out the partitions, is there 
>>>> a way I can boot from CD, and get into Disk Druid to set the 
>>>> partitions and do the formating. Then when I come to the install 
>>>> just select to keep the drive how it is?
>>>>
>>>> And I have to have LVM....
>>>>
>>>
>>> You could hit ALT-F2 and set everything up from the console by hand
>>> (including formatting) and then just tell disk druid _not_ to format.
>>> I haven't tried that, but it feasibly might work...
>>>
>>> What hardware are you on? And what error are you getting exactly on
>>> format? 
> Um. I'll try the Alt-F2. But the formatting was AFTER all the selection 
> steps. What I want is just format. Then I will leave it as is...
> 
> And if the format fails again, maybe I will learn more than 'critical 
> formatting error, install aborting' or words similar!
> 
> Oh, and this IS a test machine to get a kickstart file from....
> 

well... if it's a test machine then were it me I'd stick different hard 
drive in the machine to test and see if the current drive might be the 
problem. barring that I'd try switching out the CD drive.