Scott Silva wrote: > on 3-11-2009 1:44 PM Michael Peterson spake the following: > >> William L. Maltby wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 16:37 -0500, Michael Peterson wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I used google but did not come up with anything current to solve my problem. >>>> I have not tried any other search engines yet. >>>> There is not a search for the CentOS list so I am creating a new post. >>>> >>>> >>> See below - it's really hard to find. >>> >>> >>> >>>> I have tested the CentOS 5.2 and RHEL 5.3 CD's and they passed. >>>> I had to use linux mediacheck ide=nodma to get them to pass. >>>> The newest releases seem to most times fail with just linux mediacheck. >>>> >>>> >>> Try making the media after padding the iso image with about 300k of >>> zeros. When you search the archives (there is a search - I'll mention >>> below) there are a couple of threads about this. >>> >>> >>> >>>> I have tried linux ide=nodma and >>>> linux text ide=nodma after trying >>>> linux and >>>> linux text >>>> >>>> Anaconda fails on both CentOS 5.2 and RHEL 5.3 in all cases. >>>> >>>> >>> With only 512MB or ram you will have to use text mode only, IIRC. Also >>> in the archives. There's also some threads that mention noacpi, acpi=no >>> and some other stuff I can't recall. >>> >>> >>> >>>> The system I am trying to install on is running CentOS 3.x. >>>> >>>> The hardware is P4 2.8 CPU, 512 MB RAM, 120GB 3ware IDE/PATA RAID HD, >>>> ATI Video, CDRW CD, Dual Nic, Floppy and IDE/PATA Tape drive. >>>> >>>> Please provide any options to the kernel that I should try besides the >>>> ones mentioned above that fail. >>>> <snip> >>>> >>>> >>> For your google searches, go to the advanced section and specify >>> centos.org. That gets what's in the archives. To search directly from >>> CentOS site, click "Search" on http://centos.org/ >>> >>> HTH, >>> >>> >> The system I am trying to install on boot with out problems or errors on >> the 5.2 Live CD. >> Gui works >> Firefox and Network work >> >> I tried the options mentioned and more and get the same errors. >> They are: >> >> Starting graphical installation ... >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 900, in ? iutil.makeDriveDeviceNodes() >> File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iutil.py". line 264, in makeDriveDeviceNodes >> isys.makeDevinode(device, "dev /%s" % (device,)) >> File "/usr/lib/anaconda.isys.py", line 422, inmakeDevInode >> _isys.mkdevinode(name,fn) >> SystemError: (2, 'No such file or directory') >> install exited abnormally [1/1] >> sending termination signals ... done >> >> >> The RHEL 5.3 boot disk is the same as above except the line 900 is 924. >> >> I have tried text and GUI and ide=nodma pci=noacpi with both. >> > Can you see and write to the hard disks with the Live CD? > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > The Live CD can see and access the 3ware RAID connected drives. It is using the swap partition. I was able to switch to root and remount a file system read-write and copy files from one mount point to another. I then deleted the files with no problem. I will try to boot CentOS 5.1 CD 1 on Monday and see what results I get.