[CentOS] CentOS 6 DVD install "Unable to read group information from repositories"

Wed Jul 13 06:26:50 UTC 2011
Ljubomir Ljubojevic <office at plnet.rs>

Trey Dockendorf wrote:
> Tried my first CentOS 6 install on a system currently running 5.6.  My 
> attempt was not an upgrade, but a full re-format.  I have verified the 
> checksums of the ISO and did the pre-install disk verify and everything 
> checked out.  However after the screen for setting up the bootloader I 
> get the following error
> 
> "Unable to read group information from repositories.  This is a problem 
> with the generation of your install tree"
> 
> With my only options being "Exit Install" and "Retry", but of course 
> "Retry" continues to fail with the same message.
> 
> Basically I chose the first option in the menu for the DVD, install / 
> upgrade, went through all the settings, did a custom layout for 
> partitioning.  I basically told the installer to re-format my ext3 
> partitions to ext4 and set the mount points for / , /boot and swap. 
>  Then after selecting "Next" from the bootloader configuration is when I 
> get the above error.
> 

1. Was this i386 or x86_64?
2. Have you run Media test od DVD('s) in system in question? Maybe DVD 
drive can not read them right. Especially if you used higher speed to 
burn the disk. I would recommend slow burning like 4x when you burn OS 
DVD's (and 16x for CD's).

And have you by any chance tried the same DVD('s) on any other system?

Ljubomir