[CentOS] Installation on Intel DH67BL motherboard failed

Mon Sep 12 11:18:00 UTC 2011
John Hodrien <J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk>

On Mon, 12 Sep 2011, Sanjay Arora wrote:

> Hello all
>
> I tried to install Centos 6 on Intel DH67BL motherboard with i7-2600
> processor and a PCI Parallel/Serial port Card. This machine is running Win7,
> Ubuntu & Fedora 15.
>
> Booting from DVD, the machine boots up in text mode & loads vmlinuz and then
> the screen goes grey. Pressing a keyboard key does some dvd/hdd activity, so
> the machine is not hung. So the issue is obviously the graphics chipset.
> Research in CentOS forums shows that this may be supported by CentOS 6.1
> machine.
>
> Can I install graphics/network support from some other repo, till 6.1
> arrives and then again I can reinstall with only CentOS repos.
>
> My skillset is limited to compiling from source if instructions are there,
> but not trial & error otherwise. Any pointers?

So if you select the text install option on the DVD do you have any joy?

jh