MHR wrote: > On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Kirk Bocek <t004 at kbocek.com> wrote: >> I'm unable to install x86_64 on a host. The installer gets through the first >> part, asking for install type and it begins loading the images from whatever >> media was selected. >> >> Then anaconda spills a series of cryptic messages ending in 'file not found' >> and the console on F2 is locked up. I've tried this with physical DVD media, >> PXE-HTTP and media-boot HTTP install. It happens every time. >> >> This is a reinstall to this host. The weird thing is that I was able to >> install to this host from this media previously. >> >> I've seen the note at bugs.centos.org regarding an incorrect .discinfo file >> but that doesn't seem to be it. The .diskinfo file: >> >> 1195929648.203590 >> Final >> x86_64 >> 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 >> CentOS/base >> /home/buildcentos/CENTOS/5.1/en/x86_64/CentOS >> CentOS/pixmaps >> >> Does anyone have any idea what's going on? >> > > A little more detail, like what kind of hardware this is on, might help.... > > mhr Sure. It's a Asus DSEB-DG motherboard with dual Xeon E5440 CPUS. 8 GB RAM. All the storage is via a 3Ware 9650SE RAID controller. I didn't provide the details because it was strange that the installation failed at the same point regardless of the booting method I used. It felt like some basic mistake or mis-setting in the OS. But hey, I've been wrong before. I'm in the process of downloading a whole new DVD image even though the current image passes the SHA1 checksums. Kirk Bocek