On 20/12/15 11:13 PM, dsavage at peaknet.net wrote: > My workhorse server is a SuperMicro with their H8DM8-2 motherboard. For > many years it ran CentOS 5.x and 6.x until the boot drive failed last > year. I installed a 1TB SSD as /dev/sda and planned to install CentOS 7 on > it, replacing CentOS 6.5 on the failed drive. Unfortunately every CentOS 7 > media I tried, either optical disk or USB thumb drive, breaks down just a > few seconds after selecting "Install..." > > The H8DM8-2 motherboard is based on the nVidia MPC55 Pro and NEC uPD720400 > chipsets. It has an on-board Adaptec AIC-7902W dual-channel SCSI > controller and companion Zero-Channel RAID card. It has twin AMD Opteron > HE processors and 32GB of registered ECC DDR2 memory. The RAID array is > populated with ten Fujitsu 300GB 15K SCSI3 drives. > > I took it into a friendly Linux shop where they reviewed / verified all of > my work and confirmed the boot-time problem. Two hours into the effort, my > friend plugged in a bootable Windows 10 thumb drive and to our amazement, > it came up very normally. So did another thumb drive with a Fedora 23 > installation image. So there's nothing wrong with my hardware. > > We believe the problem is due to Red Hat compiling RHEL7 without at least > one old device driver that I still need. My friend thinks we should build > an installation disk from a modified CentOS 7 live CD kickstart file and a > CentOS-Plus kernel. While that may work, I think there may be a simpler > boot-time kernel option I could use to successfully install from a stock > ISO. > > Does anyone have any suggestions for boot-time options I could try? Try 'nomodeset'. It might not be detecting the video card properly. -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.ca/w/ What if the cure for cancer is trapped in the mind of a person without access to education?