Dear All, Thanks for all the help. By the way I did install centos 5.5 in text mode and everything went fine .cthe server to the network and then found that i was not able to ping the gateway when i do a network restart i see that eth0 comes up normally also when i do a modprobe eth0 im returened back to prompt with no errors the switch port shows the link up ifconfig shows the interface is up and running how could I know that the driver is installed correctly .. or any way i could know that my interface is up and working correctly thanks and regards if you need more details i would highly apprecite if you could ask please regards simon On Dec 14, 2010 5:18pm, Ross Walker <rswwalker at gmail.com> wrote: > On Dec 13, 2010, at 11:49 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nkadel at gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:01 AM, benedict dcunha > > sylvan.dcunha at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Dear All, > >> > >> We have a new SUN BLADE X6270 SERVER MODULES and i am trying to install > >> centos 5.5 64 bit . the installations starts fine but when it reaches > the > >> point inialthe X server it says initialization done but then gives a > fatal > >> error and stops > > > > Install in text mode: type "linux text" at the installation init > > screen. It's not as flexible, but it avoids this failed detection of > > your graphics chipset or video card. > Or use the 'vnc' option to make it available over vnc instead then > connect from any vnc capable device to do the installation. > -Ross > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20101214/e34a7c92/attachment-0005.html>