On 12/24/19 6:39 AM, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 8:20 PM Michael Eager <eager at eagerm.com> wrote: >> >> I'm having a problem installing CentOS 8 from a USB drive. When the >> installer boots from the USB, it displays the language selection screen. >> After I select English and continue, the installer freezes. The USB >> drive flashes a couple times over the next minute or so, the stops. The >> mouse moves the cursor, but the installer is unresponsive to either >> selecting QUIT or HELP. >> >> I've tried both the default and the basic graphic install with the same >> results. >> > Stupid (as in I am guilty of that) question: do you know if this > USB is not a bum? The later explains why I could not my raspberry pi > booting. Replacing with a new sd card solved this issue. CentOS completes the self-test without error before booting. Booting completes without apparent problem. My guess is that the USB is good. > If you want to be lazy and have a hypervisor, create an vm guest and > boot it using the usb. I can try that. It will tell me if there is a HW/BIOS issue. > With that said, it is possible that while you are having an > uncooperative gui you can still switch screens (i.e. keyboard still > listening to you) to screen 1 or 2 and then take a look at the > dmesg/log output for clues of what went boink. Good idea -- I hadn't thought of that. > >> Details: >> CentOS-8-x86-1905-dvd1.iso (sha256 verified) >> ASUS Prime B350 Plus motherboard >> AMD Ryzen 5 1600 CPU >> 32Gb DRAM >> 4 SATA drives in RAID/LVM configuration. >> M.2 500Gb Samsung SSD (not formatted) >> >> -- >> Michael Eager eager at eagerm.com >> 1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306 >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Michael Eager eager at eagerm.com 1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306