[CentOS] There was a crash during the distribution installation over PXE using kickstart

Tue Feb 17 15:12:32 UTC 2009
Dotan Barak <dotanba at gmail.com>

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Ralph Angenendt <ra+centos at br-online.de> wrote:
> Dotan Barak wrote:
>> Someone, called Tru, kindly gave me the following answer:
>> from your logs:
>>
>>  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line 243, in
>> renderCallback
>>    self.intf.icw.nextClicked()
>>  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 1045, in handleRenderCallback
>>    self.currentWindow.renderCallback()
>> IOError: [Errno 30] Read-only file system
>> ...
>>
>> which was caused by:
>>
>> <4>hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
>> <4>ide: failed opcode was: unknown
>> <3>hda: no DRQ after issuing MULTWRITE_EXT
>> <4>ide0: reset: success
>> <4>hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
>> <4>ide: failed opcode was: unknown
>> <3>hda: no DRQ after issuing MULTWRITE_EXT
>> <4>ide0: reset: success
>> <4>hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
>> <4>ide: failed opcode was: unknown
>
> I don't see your question in the rest od the stuff you have quoted.
>
I don't really know what the HW problem is ...


> You have a hardware failure. Fix that. After that you should be able to
> install (are you able to do a manual install on that machine?).

The weird thing is when i tried to install the machine again,
everything was o.k.
(but i have several machines that i need to install using PXE, and
failure is problematic for me).

This is why i try to find a solution to the failure.

Thanks
Dotan